A good magic effect should easily be described in one sentence.
A large movement covers a small movement
Be natural and use your head.
Don`t make unimportant things important
How are you coming into the effect? How are you getting out?
In magic, today as always, the effect is what counts. The method or methods used are always purely secondary.
If I could climax as many times as a Derek Dingle routine I would be a happy man!
Large action arrest small action.
What the eyes see, the heart must believe.
Comedy born of bewilderment is the only comedy that should be in magic.
Most magicians consider the palm an easy move to make. They are inclined to believe that they are 'getting away with it,' when they are in fact fortunate enough to have a polite audience.
The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.