Derren Brown Quotes
We're terrible at realising what goes on in other people's heads because we are trapped inside our own.
The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.
To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems
...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.
The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.
We forget our health and comfort and notice a pinching shoe. Much of living well is detaching from our boring stories of pain and shifting focus
I am often dishonest in my techniques ... I happily admit to cheating, it's all part of the game. I hope some of the fun for the viewer comes from not knowing what's real and what isn't
Magic is a performance, and a performance should have an honesty, a relevance and a resonance if it is to be offered to spectators without insulting them.
A lot of unconfident kids do tricks because it's the quickest route to impressing people," he explains. "You can stand behind something amazing and people think you're amazing.
Liberating but hard to remember we're just bit-parts in the lives of people we know, who care very little for our secrets
Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.
Our fascination with weather: its caprices and changes as an antidote to the eternal repetition of daily life; a helpful illusion of novelty
A diner having a row with a waiter in a swanky restaurant chills the blood in a way that a quarrel over a pizza order elsewhere would never do. Compassion is rarely the custom of the privileged.
When you start to build a serious wardrobe, the navy blazer is the very first piece you should choose. It can be a building block for an entire work and casual wardrobe.
