“I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.”
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Inspired Quotes — page 62 of 313
“People who say, "I don't know what to do," usually aren't inspired enough to make it happen.”
“I have seen business moguls achieve their ultimate goals but still live in frustration, worry, and fear. What's preventing these successful people for being happy? The answer is they have focused only on achievement and not fulfillment. Extraordinary accomplishment does not guarantee extraordinary joy, happiness, love, and a sense of meaning. These two skill sets feed off each other, and make me believe that success without fulfillment is failure.”
“While we are postponing, life speeds by.”
“The responsibility of leadership is not to come up with all the ideas but to create an environment in which great ideas can thrive.”
“Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy.”
“Not to be born is, past all prizing, best.”
“My life is absolutely meaningless. When I consider the different periods into which it falls, it seems like the word Schnur in the dictionary, which means in the first place a string, in the second, a daughter-in-law. The only thing lacking is that the word Schnur should mean in the third place a camel, in the fourth, a dust-brush.”
“Nature's first green is gold.”
“The highest aim of the aesthetic being is to find the Divine through beauty; the highest Art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the door of the spirit.”
“When you are forced to think, you expand your mental capacity. When you expand your mental capacity, your wealth increases.”
“As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.”
“If, for some reason, we make some big mistake and IBM wins, my personal feeling is that we are going to enter a computer Dark Ages for about twenty years.”
“I think people really need to think what it's like to have all of society arrayed against you.”
“Imagination has given us the steam engine, the telephone, the talking-machine, and the automobile, for these things had to be dreamed of before they became realities. So I believe that dreams - day dreams, you know, with your eyes wide open and your brain machinery whizzing - are likely to lead to the betterment of the world. The imaginative child will become the imaginative man or woman most apt to create, to invent, and therefore to foster civilization. A prominent educator tells me that fairy tales are of untold value in developing imagination in the young. I believe it.”
“Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships.”
“Forgotten is forgiven.”
“Pain is such an important thing in life. I think that as an artist you have to experience suffering.”
“The physical body is assembled just like a chair or a building or a flower, but the revolutions we start, the people we affect and inspire, that is eternal. So, in that respect, we do achieve immortality, and that makes me less fearful.”
“Learn as if you will live forever.”