Zitat des Tages über Zauberstab / Magic Wand:
We don't have a good legal justification for breaking up the banking system. But if I could wave a magic wand, I'd break up the banking system.
When you become president, they don't give you a magic wand that you wave. You have to get legislation passed. You have to get agencies to run programs.
There is no magic wand that can resolve our problems. The solution rests with our work and discipline.
Family, work, familiarity. Listen, if I had a magic wand and I could make myself really be happy, I'd zap me onto a farm. And I know nothing about farming.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
I beg you I no magician. I can't just wave a magic wand.
I would honestly be elated if I could wave a magic wand and eradicate my back catalog and then have a fresh crack at some of those ideas.
The camera has always been a magic wand for me, giving me access to places where I could try new experiments.
I never wanted to be a public figure. I feel that I always have to dampen down people's expectations. They expect me to be an oracle, wave a magic wand, sprinkle some slow, sparkly dust on them, to make everything all right.
People make basic assumptions based on what they have now. But you have to ask yourself, 'Is this really what people are going to be doing in five years?' Very few people ask themselves what they would actually want instead if they could wave a magic wand.
If I could wave a magic wand, I would be a size 6 and still be able to eat cake every day.
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers.
It is not fair to think that when students transit through a K-12 system that is not preparing them for beyond, that somehow we are going to wave a magic wand and things are going to be perfect for them at the higher-ed level.
Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly.