David Blaine Quotes

Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

As a magician, I try to show things to people that seem impossible. And I think magic, whether I'm holding my breath or shuffling a deck of cards, is pretty simple. It's practice, it's training, and It's practice, it's training and experimenting, while pushing through the pain to be the best that I can be. And that's what magic is to me.

The only secret of magic is that I'm willing to work harder on it than you think it's worth.

He spent hours and hours and hours practising these conjuring tricks. It's just such a curious thing.

From Fred Astaire I learned discipline and hard work.

I don't have the attention span to practice sleight of hand.

The biggest lesson I've learned about drawing is that it takes time. Which is really annoying.

You wonder how they do it and you look to see the knack You watch the foot in action, or the shoulder or the back, But when you spot the answer where the higher glamours lurk You'll find in moving higher up the laurel covered spire That most of it is practice and the rest of it is work.

Like everything else, Fletcher. Practice.

I loved magic, and so I would practice my magic tricks in front of a mirror for hours and hours and hours because I was told that you must practice, you must practice and never present a trick before it's ready.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.

Sometimes you have to play a long time to be able to play like yourself.

If I don't practice the way I should, then I won't play the way that I know I can.

Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.

Magic is the oldest part of the show business profession. It can now be used as a forward-thinking tool to build a child's confidence. It has been an amazing part in many entertainers' lives, including Steve Martin and the late Johnny Carson.

I consider myself a showman, and I love magic, and I love art, and I love performance, and they're all separate.

Penn & Teller stopped doing practical jokes, and the reason is we got much too good at it.

I practice a lot.

What makes knowledge automatic is what gets you to Carnegie Hall - practice, practice, practice.

It was just like a digital fixation with cards and math and science and then I started to look at images of great magicians from Houdini down the line.

Writing is like playing golf - you have to keep working at your swing.

I take my fun very seriously, whether it's playing the drums or acting in comedy bits. The need to be disciplined about it, and not take it lightly, and not be too casual, is something I take deeply to heart.

A magician pulls a rabbit from a hat, and actors pull truth from fiction.

For me, learning music and playing music and learning your instrument has incredible parallels for our day-to-day existence as human beings. All the ideas of discipline, and having a sense of yourself and translating that to music, that's all part of life's journey.

Technique is the main thing when it comes to success at the top level. The sound temperament comes into work only when you have a sound technique.