If I need to steal from a difficult spot, I like to use a 'bottom-up' attention strategy to direct the focus. — Apollo Robbins Attention Copy Share Image
Normally, when I'm not performing or stealing, I second-guess myself; I have doubts. — Apollo Robbins Doubt Copy Share Image
I've taken a tenacious bulldog approach to learning new skills throughout my life. — Apollo Robbins Bulldog Copy Share Image
I wouldn't be able to do the things I do if I hadn't been around and seen the stuff my brothers did. — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
Attention is what steers your perceptions; it's what controls your reality. It's the gateway to the mind. — Apollo Robbins Attention Copy Share Image
I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
If you could control somebody's attention, what would you do with it? — Apollo Robbins Attention Copy Share Image
When I was around 13 or 14, and I was in a private school, I had a Frisbee that had the name… — Apollo Robbins Apollo Copy Share Image
At the zoo, people would gather around the railway to see the snakes being fed, and my brothers would walk around the… — Apollo Robbins People Copy Share Image
Our absolutes should always be hypothesis. They should never be confirmed as fact because everything that we construct through our perceptions, through… — Apollo Robbins Absolutes Copy Share Image
One time, I had a guy, when I was performing at Caesar's Palace, and during the course of the show, I offered… — Apollo Robbins Anniversary Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of magic. If you think of it like martial arts, there's sparring, where you are doing it with… — Apollo Robbins Art Copy Share Image
In the same way that a film director would use a film lens to blur out a certain item or use a… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I think that's kind of my forte is that I tell people beforehand that I'm going to steal from them. And a… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
The mechanisms inside me tick like a criminal. My mind works like theirs, and criminals can smell it when they're around me… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
When I shake someone's hand, I apply the lightest pressure on their wrist with my index and middle fingers and lead them… — Apollo Robbins Body Copy Share Image
I was doing all these hand exercises, trying to move things like other kids, catch things like other kids, and change my… — Apollo Robbins Change Copy Share Image
Usually I'll tell someone, for example, like their watch. If they have a watch on, I might say, 'In three minutes, I'd… — Apollo Robbins Game Copy Share Image
Think about it this way - if you have five senses, and they're all feeding into one place, kind of like a… — Apollo Robbins Decision making Copy Share Image
When you look at all this massive data that comes in from our senses, and it all has to come in through… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I was at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, and I was performing at a show there. Jimmy Carter was going to be… — Apollo Robbins Detail Copy Share Image
Usually, when people watch magic, there are two levels: the people who walk away accepting that there are things they don't know,… — Apollo Robbins Magic Copy Share Image
When I became a teen, I ran into a friend at a magic shop who took me under his wing. I started… — Apollo Robbins Brothers Copy Share Image
When we think of misdirection, we think of something as looking off to the side when, actually, the things right in front… — Apollo Robbins Day Copy Share Image
Many times, illusions or magic sets are designed as an exposition for the audience to watch, but the the style I do… — Apollo Robbins Audience Copy Share Image
If you don't attend to something, you can't be aware of it. But ironically, you can attend to something without being aware… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
Too often, we take our construct of reality as an absolute, and what I'm trying to point out for most people is… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
A lot of magic is designed to appeal to people visually, but what I'm trying to affect is their minds, their moods,… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
I had physical disabilities as a kid. I had fine gross motor problems, so I didn't have natural dexterity in my hands.… — Apollo Robbins Dexterity Copy Share Image
We always think of misdirection as, 'Look over here while I do this over here!' And that's not what it is. You… — Apollo Robbins Copy Share Image
