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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 2fb851d | Mark Twain said "all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 2c68989 | 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 will tear them both to pieces, and you will no longer have any troubles from my royalties." In time, these royalties would've made Tesla the world's first billionaire. Instead, th.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 6656bd5 | Many such top performers overcame their average--or even below-average--intellects and nonexistent aptitudes to develop outstanding abilities in disciplines such as chess, music, business, and medicine. Examples of such remarkable transformations abound throughout history. Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company. In his youth, Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was.. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 9dd2050 | First, that the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice. Second, that there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't. What is generally recognized as "great talent" is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a process." | Sean Patrick | ||
| ac9fe58 | Do we choose our life's work based on the U.S. Department of Labor's list of highest-paying jobs, or do we follow our bliss? Do we heed the call to conformity, or the call to adventure? | Sean Patrick | ||
| 7ca8bfc | We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path toward the life we feel we ought to be living? Do we choose our life's work based on the U.S. Department of Labor's list of highest-paying jobs, or do we follow our bliss? Do we heed the call to conformity, or the call to adventure?" | Sean Patrick | ||
| d4d6115 | Where the goal is the what, the purpose is the all-important why. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 0ffc78b | there was one common factor that researchers recognized in all great performers: they practiced so hard and intensely that it hurt. | Sean Patrick | ||
| da83e60 | What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free. 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. | Sean Patrick | ||
| f8f5d92 | Nobody can love what they don't feel in their hearts. | Sean Patrick | ||
| c9d5a76 | Only in purpose can you find the strength to cross the Rubicon and march toward greatness. Goals are the milestones you create for your journey. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 5421170 | It's on the path of simplicity that love prefers to walk. | simplicity | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| 8879070 | My friends, if there is one gift in my omniscience, it's the knowledge I have of just how much good is out there. When I'm disappointed in my children near and far who hurt others, I am reminded of the many souls who do not hurt others. I see a smack across the face in one part of the planet at the same time as I see a thousand hugs and kisses somewhere else. Love is everywhere. And if all the forces of good were stacked up against all the .. | good-versus-evil good-vs-evil omniscience | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| fda47bc | Dr. K Anders Ericsson called 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." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 4a6f859 | IQ and success are related...to a point. Sure, someone with an IQ of 150 (a "genius" by all normal standards) is going to do much better in life than someone with an IQ of 80 (nearly "mentally disabled"). Similarly, a person with an IQ of 130 ("near genius") has a significant upper hand in life when compared to a person with an IQ of 100 ("average")." | Sean Patrick | ||
| 3e098ee | there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers--there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don't. What is generally recognized as "great talent" is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a process." | Sean Patrick | ||
| a1200ce | The truth is often a big, scary wall, no less massive and haunting even after you find a way around it. | lying true truth | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| e1646e5 | Know that God loves you very, very much. And remind others that they are loved too. If they don't want to hear that God loves them, then tell them you love them. It will be just as important! Beliefs vary, but love always works! | love religion spirituality | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| 2783359 | into the ground. Sixteen iron rods would be | Sean Patrick | ||
| 4308aef | Live in the present. Tomorrow is a puzzle you can only solve with the answers you find today. | life-lessons live-in-the-present present | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| c3f2b77 | Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it's self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune. Once you flip that switch, things get a bit chaotic. Ideas start buzzing. Images start popping into your head. Fragments of all kinds of data find their way into orbit. | Sean Patrick | ||
| bb86041 | True soul pulses with a knowing every hour of the day. It does not fall asleep when the body does, and it does not rest when the mind falls off into a dream state. The truest soul within you is that part of you which you can never forget, never lose touch with, never be lost in, because it is always and forever at one with God. | soul | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| 358e921 | we've been indoctrinated to believe that the higher the IQ, the more likely one is to succeed in life. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 4ec7e76 | I'm of the camp that if an angel tells you one thing, and a man in ruby slippers tells you another, you go with the angel. | papal pope | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| a0da58a | God can only show you eternity if you are willing to let go completely of the now. | god time | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| cd69f6b | When you think with your human minds and act with your human bodies, you'll get human results left and right all the time. It's logical! But when you think and act from your soul, when you live this life like it's already your eternal life, you are able to do so much more. | Sean Patrick Brennan | ||
| 1a3e552 | the seed of greatness exists in every human being. | Sean Patrick | ||
| 11567cd | You must trust in your inner being of light, the angel you already are. | faith soul trust | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| eea680c | The Creator puts life into motion, and doesn't just sit around all day moving each and every piece this way and that on his whims. If life was just one gigantic board game, God isn't the banker or the leader, or even a collection of all the players. God is just the one who invented the game. You can be pissed all you want when something awful or even evil happens during the game, but you have no right to go and sue Milton Bradley. | god life | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| 5efba2d | It wasn't that God didn't know what was going on...omniscience being what it is. He just tried his best not to read too far ahead of the class. | omniscience | Sean Patrick Brennan | |
| ddcabc7 | bad-mouth her husband? | Catherine Coulter | ||
| fbd6f6b | the repressiveness of a society in general is directly proportionate to its harsh repression of sexual language." What" -- | William Styron | ||
| 2eeaf33 | more often than not the person one loves from whom one withholds the most searing truths about one's self, if only out of the very human motive to spare groundless pain. But | William Styron | ||
| 432a5a3 | absolute evil paralyzes absolutely. In | William Styron | ||
| 3aa8c29 | in modern times most of the mischief ascribed to the military has been wrought with the advice and consent of civil authority. As | William Styron | ||
| 6457516 | greed is not a racial but a human prediliction and | William Styron | ||
| ae2530d | Neath cold sand I dreamed of death / but woke at dawn to see / in glory, the bright, the morning star. | William Styron | ||
| b124d2d | How simultaneously enfeebling and insulting is an empty page! Devoid | William Styron | ||
| e3e0713 | Hoss was hardly a sadist, nor was he a violent man or even particularly menacing. He might even be said to have possessed a serviceable decency. Indeed, | William Styron | ||
| 772554d | servomechanism in which a moral vacuum had been so successfully sucked clean of every molecule of real qualm or scruple that his own descriptions of the unutterable crimes he perpetrated daily seem often to float outside and apart from evil, phantasms of cretinous innocence. Yet | William Styron | ||
| 4bd573a | A faint mist of perspiration clung to her skin like aphrodisia, | William Styron | ||
| d6e3dee | the iron determination with which we must carry out Hitler's orders could only be obtained by a stifling of all human emotions. | William Styron | ||
| 4d28ed3 | there is only one way out--up the chimney.' He | William Styron | ||
| a2ede2d | If there are Jews in this group, you have no right to live more than two weeks.' Then he said, 'Any nuns here? Like the priests, you have one month. All the rest, three months. | William Styron |