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Entitlement is the opposite of enchantment. -- Guy Kawasaki
Enchantment is the purest form of sales -- Guy Kawasaki
Whatever deceives men seems to produce a magical enchantment. -- Plato
Study lends a kind of enchantment to all our surroundings. -- Honore de Balzac
It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. -- Antoine Rivarol
From the very fountain of enchantment there arises a taste of bitterness to spread anguish amongst the flowers. -- Lucretius
The sight of nature fascinates, the family tie has a sweet enchantment and patriotism gives the religious spirit a fiery devotion to the powers that it reveres. -- Bruno Bauer
The first fall of snow is not only an event, it is a magical event. You go to bed in one kind of a world and wake up in another quite different, and if this is not enchantment then where is it to be found? -- J. B. Priestley
I think it's important to keep your personal life to yourself as much as you can. It protects your sanity and you need to have boundaries. And it helps that enchantment of watching an actor. If you know someone's favourite colour or what they like to do on a Sunday, you won't fall for the character as much. -- Dianna Agron
Enchantment is the oldest form of medicine. -- Carl Jung
Enchantment and seduction were fine means of persuasion, but when time is short, an awkward but quick concussion could better serve a girl's purpose. -- Christopher Moore
Into the sunset's turquoise marge The moon dips, like a pearly barge; Enchantment sails through magic seas, To fairland Hesperides, Over the hills and away. -- Madison Cawein
Come little children, I'll take thee away into a Land of Enchantment. Come little children, the time's come to play here in my Garden of Magic. -- Sarah Jessica Parker
Enchantment can be done with writing but I think enchantment is basically a prospective or an operating system for life. That you can enchant a person who is assigning your airplane seat, your hotel room, your waiter, your waitress. -- Guy Kawasaki
The last of Summer is Delight - Deterred by Retrospect. 'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review - Enchantment's Syndicate. To meet it - nameless as it is - Without celestial Mail - Audacious as without a Knock To walk within the Veil. -- Emily Dickinson
Enchantment and fulfillment were on the gold and garnet horizon - autumn's breath, a dormant dream reawakened, a yearning nearly satiated, a tender thank you with a brush of the lips, and a connection as fingers touch and go hand in hand. -- Donna Lynn Hope
Defy the crowd. The crowd isn't always wise. It can also lead you down a path of silliness, sub-optimal choices, and downright destruction. Enchantment is as necessary for people to diverge from a crowd as it is to get people to join one. -- Guy Kawasaki
Distance lends enchantment to the view. -- Mark Twain
A false enchantment can all too easily last a lifetime. -- W. H. Auden
I was always interested in enchantment and magicians and still am. -- Christopher Lee
Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue. -- Thomas Campbell
I do not understand how anyone can live without some small place of enchantment to turn to. -- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
Habit is a second nature which prevents us from knowing the first, of which it has neither the cruelties nor the enchantments. -- Marcel Proust
You and I have need of the strongest spell that can be found to wake us from the evil enchantment of worldliness. -- C. S. Lewis
This is one of the miracles of love: It gives a power of seeing through its own enchantments and yet not being disenchanted. -- C. S. Lewis
I have always tried to live by the 'awe principle.' That is: Can I find awe, wonder and enchantment in the most mundane things conceivable? -- Craig Hatkoff
My life is like a music-hall,Where, in the impotence of rage,Chained by enchantment to my stall,I see myself upon the stageDance to amuse a music-hall. -- Arthur Symons
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. -- Marianne Moore
I loved 'Fantasia' as a kid because it filled me with wonder, enchantment and awe. It was my first real introduction into classical music. It was totally inspiring to me. -- Nicolas Cage
The only words that ever satisfied me as describing nature are the terms used in fairy books, charm, spell, enchantment; they express the arbitrariness of the fact and its mystery. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
Playing live is basically just hyperactivity and a certain sense of enchantment that I deliver to the audience, to let them know what it would be like to be inside my head. -- Dave Mustaine
For me, art is make-believe. It's enchantment. It's a fable. I'm enjoying that and playing with it. Of course it's serious, and art is serious, but I'm not going to rarefy it. -- Shea Hembrey
Knowledge is great. Competence is great. But the combination of both encourages people to trust you and increases your powers of enchantment. And in this world, the combination is a breath of fresh air. -- Guy Kawasaki
The storyline of a fantasy novel is filled with such a sense of enchantment, beauty and strangeness; it allows the writer to explore the big ontological questions of life that would sound like a sermon in a social realist novel. -- Kate Forsyth
I am in the middle of it: chaos and poetry; poetry and love and again, complete chaos. Pain, disorder, occasional clarity; and at the bottom of it all: only love; poetry. Sheer enchantment, fear, humiliation. It all comes with love -- Anna Akhmatova
Robert Osborne either has the best job in the world, or comes very close. As millions of viewers know, Osborne is the resident host of the great Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel, the most reliable source of pure enchantment in the cable universe. -- Tom Shales
We were born with a natural tendency to focus on love. Our imaginations were creative and flourishing, and we knew how to use them. We were connected to a richer world, a world full of enchantment and a sense of the miraculous. What happened? -- Marianne Williamson
Here is the world of imagination, hopes, and dreams. In this timeless land of enchantment, the age of chivalry, magic and make-believe are reborn - and fairy tales come true. Fantasyland is dedicated to the young-in-heart, to those who that when you wish upon a star, your dreams come true. -- Walt Disney
Enchantment is the purest form of sales. Enchantment is all about changing people's hearts, minds and actions because you provide them a vision or a way to do things better. The difference between enchantment and simple sales is that with enchantment you have the other person's best interests at heart, too. -- Guy Kawasaki
One of the things I've discovered at my age is I must have enchantment. And that was not clear to me in my earlier years. When I look at my favorite films, the Frank Capra - even Scorsese, even 'Goodfellas,' what makes that movie so remarkable is there's enchantment in their world. -- David O. Russell
Dogs invite us not only to share their joy but also to live in the moment, where we are neither proceeding from nor moving toward, where the enchantment of the past and future cannot distract us, where a freedom from practical desire and a cessation of our usual ceaseless action allows us to recognize the truth of our existence, the reality of our world and purpose--if we dare. -- Dean Koontz
Humanities are the instructors of enchantment. -- David Brooks
Writing is one way to achieve enchantment. -- Guy Kawasaki
Language upon a silvered tongue affords enchantment enough. -- Salman Rushdie
Art is enchantment and artists have the right of spells. -- Jeanette Winterson
Reality lies in the greatest enchantment you have ever experienced. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
[At a musical concert:] . . . the music's pure algebra of enchantment. -- Conrad Aiken
It was a way of recognizing places of enchantment: people falling asleep like this. -- Jonathan Franzen
Where is your Self to be found? Always in the deepest enchantment that you have experienced. -- Hugo Von Hofmannsthal
As we passed on, it seemed those scenes of visionary enchantment would never have an end. -- Meriwether Lewis
...but the enchantment of error that you put on me I must wear forever in your eyes. -- Peter S. Beagle
I thought: pity the poor in spirit who know neither the enchantment nor the beauty of language. -- Muriel Barbery
It's hard not to stand in awe and enchantment with the beauty in which nature expresses herself. -- Steve Maraboli
It (enchantment) started when the earth was born. It never stops. It is, always. It's just here. -- Jerry Spinelli
Words of mankind limited in meaning to describe the enchantment that illuminates from aura of a dancer. -- Shah Asad Rizvi
To live without that enchantment of beauty is to interpret frugality and simple living with a puritan literalism -- John Lane
Everything a cat is and does physically is to me beautiful, lovely, stimulating, soothing, attractive and an enchantment. -- Paul Gallico
We have a need for enchantment that is as deep and devoted as our need for food and water. -- Derrick Jensen
Pop music is not just a clumsy mass fanaticism, connected to a deceitful enchantment totally lacking in moral rigour. -- Paul Morley
The mirror had no power. The mirror was just a piece of silvered glass; the enchantment was all in me. -- Maya Panika
To the one who knows how to look and feel, every moment of this free wandering life is an enchantment. -- Alexandra David-Neel
Stories are the only enchantment possible, for when we begin to see our suffering as a story, we are saved. -- Anais Nin
Relief work does not consist entirely in wearisome appeals ... it has its moments of enchantment, its adventures, its unexpected vistas into new worlds -- Eglantyne Jebb
Pastors must practice a two-fold program of cultural engagement: deconstruction and demystification of cultural idols, and reconstruction and re-enchantment of a gospel-shaped worldview." -- Timothy Keller
I find the remark, "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view" is no less true of the political than of the natural world. -- Franklin Pierce
Imagination, realm of enchantment!- which the most beneficent of beings bestowed upon man to console him for reality- I must quit you now. -- Xavier de Maistre
That is why your sacrifice was all the more difficult. You chose to be a hero not through enchantment but through your own manhood. -- Lloyd Alexander
People who mattered could not take the humdrum world. But this was not the world, it was enchantment; and all of it was mine. -- Daphne du Maurier
The bridge between the words glamour and grammar is magic. According to the OED, glamour evolved through an ancient association between learning and enchantment. -- Roy Peter Clark
The cult of happiness turns into a huge concern which to my opinion is exactly contrary to what happiness should be: a paradise of enchantment. -- Pascal Bruckner
Rome is stately and impressive; Florence is all beauty and enchantment; Genoa is picturesque; Venice is a dream city; but Naples is simply -- fascinating. -- Lilian Whiting
I suppose there's something to be said for the sheer reinforcement of our beliefs, but really I think poetry is more useful as disenchantment than enchantment. -- Robert Hass
In song and dance, man forgets how to walk and speak and is on the way into flying into the air, dancing... his very gestures express enchantment. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Poetry is the gate through which I enter the land of enchantment. Once inside the flaming wall, my limitations fall from me, and my spirit is free. -- Helen Keller
I was thinking about New Mexico, and I rounded the corner in New York, and there was a New Mexico license plate: "New Mexico, land of enchantment." -- William S. Burroughs
Storytelling draws on the magic of language to created Elsewheres. Writers use a linguistic sleight-of-hand to take an attribute, attach them to new objects, and create enchantment. -- Maria Tatar
Speculation is the romance of trade, and casts contempt upon on all its sober realities. It renders the stock-jobber a magician, and the exchange a region of enchantment. -- Washington Irving
Black for hunting through the night For death and sorrow, the colorâ??s white Gold for a bride in her wedding gown, And red to call enchantment down. -- Cassandra Clare
They were still all beautiful and there was still enchantment and wonder, but she had crossed a line and now the fairy tale was green with corruption and evil. -- Stephen King
It is quite cruel that a poet cannot wander through his regions of enchantment without having a critic, forever, like the old man of the sea, upon his back. -- Marianne Moore
What verse is for the poet, dialectical thinking is for the philosopher. He grasps for it in order to get hold of his own enchantment, in order to perpetuate it. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Perfume opens endless horizons. It appeals both to the senses and to the imagination. Like an enchantment, it works on an instinctive level and at the same time is extremely subtle. -- Nino Cerruti
If we study Nature attentively in its great evolutions as in its minutest works, we cannot fail to recognize the possibility of enchantment - giving to that word its exact significance. -- Honore de Balzac
Christian spirituality was not a children's story. It wasn't cute or neat. It was mystical and odd and clean, and it was reaching into dirty. There was wonder in it and enchantment. -- Donald Miller
The world owes its enchantment to these curious creatures and their fancies; but its multiple complicity rejects them. Thistledown spirits, tragic, heartrending in their evanescence, they must go blowing headlong to perdition. -- Jean Cocteau
The work of art still has something in common with enchantment: it posits its own, self-enclosed area, which is withdrawn from the context of profane existence, and in which special laws apply. -- Theodor Adorno
Sensual pleasure passes and vanishes, but the friendship between us, the mutual confidence, the delight of the heart, the enchantment of the soul, these things do not perish and can never be destroyed. -- Voltaire
There's enchantment in a smile, did you know?Shall I prove in a wink that it is so?Watch my mouth grin wide and see,How quick your lips smile back at me! -- Richelle E. Goodrich
I thought, "Wow, English is like magic." It not only shattered my voice, it changed me physiologically. I believed this for months ... There's magic in the language. I never fell out of the enchantment. -- Andrew Lam
Infinity imagines curiosity from the wild abyss - Only the child makes a swing-set view of the worlds upside down. Unwatched truth is the enchantment of childhood.And we never grow out of it... -- Akiane Kramarik
The night swelled with magic; not the beneficent kind of love-magic that sweeps couples away, but the kind of magic that rips and tears, the enchantment that creeps out of the woods and pounces. -- Charlaine Harris
Again men have been kept back as by a kind of enchantment from progress in science by reverence for antiquity, by the authority of men counted great in philosophy, and then by general consent. -- Francis Bacon
In alarming proportions the following words have disappeared from architectural publications: beauty, inspiration, magic, sorcery, enchantment, and also serenity, mystery, silence, privacy, astonishment. All of these have found a loving home in my soul. -- Luis Barragan
The writer has a feeling and utters it from his true self. The reader reads it and is immediately infected and has exactly the same feeling. This is the whole secret of enchantment and fascination. -- Brenda Ueland
this is the spirit of the enchantment under which Venice lies, pearly and roseate, like the Sleeping Beauty, changeless throughout the centuries, arrested, while the concrete forest of the modern world grows up around her. -- Mary McCarthy

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