Majicman Notes

The most powerful means of gripping attention is suspense. It can be either the suspense inherent in a situation or the suspense that has the audience asking, ‘What will happen next?’” Alfred Hitchcock “Rear Window” Read more

So light is perhaps the most powerful stimulus for our mental, physical health and for our performance in every endeavor. We often miss this point because the effects of light are what we call slow… Read more

Money dissolves while you’re sleeping, it flies away while you’re changing your shoes (coming apart, with wooden heels) to run to the market for the second time : you never stop moving, but you’re always… Read more

The most powerful productivity tool ever invented is simply the word “No” Author unknown Read more

When try­ing to change minds, or­ga­ni­za­tions or even the world, we of­ten de­fault to a par­tic­u­lar ap­proach: push­ing. Boss not lis­ten­ing to that new idea? Send them an­other Power­Point deck. Client isn’t buy­ing the pitch?… Read more

As Mark Twain and fellow novelist William Dean Howells stepped outside together one morning, a downpour began and Howells asked, “Do you think it will stop?” Twain replied, “It always has.” George Will Read more

Steve Jobs: Asking for help is a superpower “I’ve never found anybody that didn’t want to help me if I asked them for help. I called up Bill Hewlett (founder of HP) when I was… Read more

Looking someone in the eye makes them feel like a human being. Brian Grazer Read more

No one wants to stay a beginner. We all want to get better. But even as our skills improve, and our knowledge and experience grow, what I hope to encourage is the preservation, or even… Read more

This T-shirt has a straightforward message: “I put ketchup on my ketchup.” Now, that’s the statement of somebody who is seriously in love with ketchup. It kind of teases those Americans who put ketchup on… Read more