Majicman Notes

In this culture appearances are all-important. The French are not only obsessed with Beauty in all of its manifestations; it is a value in itself. Everyone – in their physical being, their dress, their lives,… Read more

You have to be like no one if you want to be someone Il faut être comme personne si l’on veut être quelqu’un. Sacha Sperling French novelist and screenwriter Read more

Paris has a way of belonging to everyone. We dream about the city, we fall in love with it. Paris is always much more than a destination. It becomes a stage, a setting for some… Read more

If you don’t hurry up and let life know what you want, life will damned soon show you what you’ll get. Robertson Davies Canadian novelist, playwright, critic, journalist, and professor Read more

Don’t fear failure. Not failure, but low aim, is the crime. In great attempts it is glorious even to fail. Bruce Lee Read more

If you only wished to be happy, this could be easily accomplished; but we wish to be happier than other people, and this is always difficult, for we believe others to be happier than they… Read more

“M. Scott Peck wrote a book which starts, ‘Life is difficult.’ This is one of the great things about life. If you understand this, you can transcend it, because you anticipate that things are going… Read more

Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore, So do our minutes hasten to their end; Each changing place with that which goes before, In sequent toil all forwards do contend. William Shakespeare, Sonnet… Read more

The second law of thermodynamics states that “as one goes forward in time, the net entropy (degree of disorder) of any isolated or closed system will always increase (or at least stay the same)”. Read more

The first biological lesson of history is that life is competition. Competition is not only the life of trade, it is the trade of life – peaceful when food abounds, violent when the mouths outrun… Read more