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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 41bcaac | Allis Chalmers, an American manufacturing company, and the railway and lighting division of the Westinghouse Company contracted Tesla to build his flying machine, but the project never began for unknown reasons. After | Sean Patrick | ||
| 75dde6c | One of the dominant traits that define history's greatest geniuses is their genuine interest in, love for, and dedication to the well-being of other people--a rare commodity that would guide Elizabeth through her tumultuous, and ultimately triumphant, reign. | Sean Patrick | ||
| fcd51a7 | imagination is more important than knowledge," because "knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand." All great geniuses are incredibly creative in" | Sean Patrick | ||
| 51ccc3e | Westinghouse owed Tesla over $1 million in royalties, an amount that grew daily. When Westinghouse described to Tesla the desperate situation, Tesla replied with the following: "Mr. Westinghouse, you have been my friend, you believed in me when others had no faith; you were brave enough to go ahead when others lacked courage; you supported me when even your own engineers lacked vision. ... Here is your contract, and here is my contract. I w.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5fef294 | I learned at an early age that there were seventeen important people in the universe, and that Jane was nine of them. She was more than half...just like my Grandaddy said. | Sean Patrick Flanery | ||
| d0c5d05 | The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you. But | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7a3246f | When you start viewing creativity as a process of combination, and imagination as the ability to connect, stretch, and merge things in new ways, creative brilliance becomes less mystifying. A creative genius is just better at connecting the dots than others are. That's | Sean Patrick | ||
| 8b75dc5 | A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 272fec1 | We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected--the signs of a decaying culture. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 89d98c8 | Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 6fe915b | The announcement generated considerable controversy, and Tesla was widely criticized as a "mad scientist" whose sanity was slipping. Undaunted, he approached" | Sean Patrick | ||
| e48c36c | Lao Tzu warned us of this when he said, "Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions. Watch your actions; they become habit. Watch your habits; they become character. Watch your character; it becomes your destiny." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 3097ba8 | Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 45d0af0 | asked many people these questions and their answers are invariable. "Of course it would." The cultural correlation is undeniable: we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed" | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2a32c87 | Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 010d590 | On the evening of May 1, 1893, over 27 million people anxiously awaited to see the future of electricity. When President Grover Cleveland pushed a button, | Sean Patrick | ||
| a3ae3cb | The Westinghouse Corporation won a bid for illuminating the 1893 Chicago World's Fair, which was to be the first all-electric fair in history. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7fb61e8 | Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The | Sean Patrick | ||
| cf7791a | That's why the coffee house in the Age of Enlightenment and the Parisian salons of modernism were such engines of creativity; they were spaces where many people from many different backgrounds and areas of expertise came to swap, join, and borrow many different ideas. Don't | Sean Patrick | ||
| b05ea65 | politicians and pundits tell you what your rights are. Read this book to learn your constitutional rights and together, we can keep the spirit of freedom alive in this great nation. Click here to view this | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2d2ba27 | Or, as Tesla put it, "A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature." It" | Sean Patrick | ||
| 1a35669 | In every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds. For one reason or another, many people just "don't get it." | Sean Patrick | ||
| e74bf8e | the most slavish thing was to "luxuriate," whereas the most royal thing was to "labor." -- | Sean Patrick | ||
| b10d875 | I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance," wrote John D. Rockefeller." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 668da3d | Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." -Howard Thurman" | Sean Patrick | ||
| 296f9e9 | Without Freedom of Thought, there can be no such thing as Wisdom; and no such thing as public Liberty, without Freedom of Speech." -Benjamin" | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5e532c8 | we may not be built for the NFL or Kentucky Derby, but we're surrounded by opportunities every day, everywhere we go. There is no shortage of problems to be solved, needs and desires to be fulfilled, and innovative ways to help others. | Sean Patrick | ||
| a150195 | Tesla, you don't understand our American humor," he said. Instead, Edison offered Tesla a raise of $10 more per week, to be added to his current salary of $18 per week. Tesla was disgusted and immediately resigned." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 1c80572 | you have been my friend, you believed in me when others had no faith; you were brave enough to go ahead when others lacked courage; you supported me when even your own engineers lacked vision. ... | Sean Patrick | ||
| 85e3f85 | basketball. If you're five foot five, your prospects of becoming even an NBA bench warmer are slim-to-none. The fact is if you're less than six feet tall, you can pretty much forget about your dreams to challenge | Sean Patrick | ||
| 3d7d26b | Marcus Aurelius once said that a person's life is "dyed with the color of his imagination." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7b87e4c | By the end of 1897, Westinghouse was nearly bankrupt, and it looked as though Morgan would usurp everything that Tesla and Westinghouse had built together. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 054948f | One of Morgan's managers, Charles Coffin, gloated to Westinghouse about how easily Morgan had established Edison's monopoly by bribing local politicians and installing systems that | Sean Patrick | ||
| 24df413 | Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement--as a mysterious gift that can't be explained or cultivated. But we're wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The | Sean Patrick | ||
| 6ae0417 | was a dream project for Tesla, and Westinghouse was awarded the contract. Construction began immediately, and Tesla would oversee it. Progress was slow. The project was perilous and fraught with | Sean Patrick | ||
| f0e4dd9 | this we can see the necessity of being willing to fight for your creations. Morgan and Edison weren't satisfied with trying to ruin Tesla through capitalistic competition--they were resorting to outright depravity | Sean Patrick | ||
| b3f073a | the "10,000 hour" rule. The rule's premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of focused, intentional practice. Analyzing the lives of geniuses in a wide range of intellectual, artistic, and athletic pursuits confirms this concept." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 10a7836 | being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now, | Sean Patrick | ||
| e13c3a5 | indoctrinated | Sean Patrick | ||
| e671944 | The more varied your knowledge and experiences are, the more likely you are to be able to create new associations and fresh ideas. | Sean Patrick | ||
| d383e8e | What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 718ec5c | His malaise couldn't snuff his imagination and love of his work, however. He refocused his efforts on commercially viable machinery and--in 1906, on his 50th birthday--presented a 200-horsepower bladeless turbine engine to the world. He was also contracted by the Waltham Watch Company to build the world's first and only air-friction speedometer, | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5e6dba6 | Some people like to think that geniuses are so inherently extraordinary that they navigate their journeys with clairvoyant ease. This simply isn't true. Greatness does not come lightly. It requires that you make sacrifices of time, interests, and--sometimes--possessions. | Sean Patrick | ||
| b89c64d | All great geniuses are incredibly creative in their own ways. They're able to take what is known, dream of new possibilities, and bring them into the world. Every mathematical enigma solved, every masterful symphony composed, every revolutionary machine invented, every brilliant philosophy penned, every great corporation built...they all sprang from a person with an extraordinary imagination. | Sean Patrick |