Malcolm Gladwell:
“What a gifted child is, in many ways, is a gifted learner. And what a gifted adult is, is a gifted doer. And those are quite separate domains of achievement.
Precociousness, in other words, is not necessarily or always a prelude to adult achievement. Sometimes it’s just its own little discrete state… Sometimes we call [...]
Joseph Campbell:
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
Thomas Edison:
“Being busy does not always mean real work. The object of all work is production or accomplishment and to either of these ends there must be forethought, system, planning, intelligence, and honest purpose, as well as perspiration. Seeming to do is not doing.”
Henry David Thoreau:
“It’s not enough to be busy. The question is: [...]
ApochPiQ, The Bag of Holding:
“The most successful people in history are not those who have attained perfection. On the contrary, the successful people are those who have learned to handle failure. Our collective consciousness is slathered with pithy quotes from Newton, Einstein, Edison, and a horde of others; they speak of standing on the shoulders [...]