Magician Archetype Quotes

#1. Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

Peter Thomas

#2. There's no need to overwhelm yourself with thoughts, because you know that you're just as good or better than some of the players you're going up against.

Cobi Jones

#3. A man is judged by his friends, for the wise and the foolish have never agreed.

Baltasar Gracian

#4. The door cracked open. "Decent?" Rafe asked.
"Yep"
"Damn." He pushed it open.
"If you're hoping to see something, the trick is to not knock first."
"That would be wrong," he said as he walked in. "The trick is to hope you say 'no, but come in anyway.'"
"Ah.

Kelley Armstrong

#5. Personal piety and formal worship are essential to the Christian life, but they must lead to lives that "act justly and love mercy" (Mic. 6:8).

Steve Corbett

#6. If our team doesn't face enough adversity early on in a season, I create it. Nothing builds a team like adversity.

Mike Tomlin

#7. The power of the anger flowing through me, the urge to get back to Perry while I could, had raised me into another level of consciousness. In other words, I was bat-shit crazy.

Karina Halle

#8. The liberty, prosperity, and the happiness of our country will always be the object of my most fervent prayers to the Supreme Author of All Good.

James Monroe

#9. My more tenderhearted daughter, Becka, said to me during this time, Mom, when you write a novel you get to rewrite it, but when you live with someone for twenty years, that is the novel, and you can never write that novel with anyone again!

Elizabeth Strout