To impress people as much as we would wish, we would first need to successfully adopt each of their value systems

Few kids seek to learn a skill specifically designed to impress people unless they feel less than impressive themselves.

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.

There are things in your life which you are in control of, and those you're not. You need to not care about those things which you're not in control of, and when you come to really understand that, you can go from being really upset about something to that lovely feeling of being a kid where everything is okay.

The desire to impress is an efficient means of bringing out one’s least impressive qualities.

...there is a fine line between wishing to produce child-like astonishment and treating people like infants.

Magic is not inherently anything. It is what you sell it as.