Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, read more

Neither a lofty degree of intelligence nor imagination nor both together
go to the making of genius. Love, love, love, that is the soul of genius.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

If you are going to do something wrong, at least enjoy it.

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the
nightmares because of my dreams.

I have had dreams, and I have had nightmares. I overcame the
nightmares because of my dreams.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

A good memory is one trained to forget the trivial.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

Nothing adventured, nothing attained.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and read more

If your work is becoming uninteresting, so are you. Work is an inanimate thing and can be made lively and interesting only by injecting yourself into it. Your job is only as big as you are.

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its
efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool read more

The metaphor is perhaps one of man's most fruitful potentialities. Its
efficacy verges on magic, and it seems a tool for creation which God
forgot inside one of His creatures when He made him.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through
my conscious thoughts.

Nothing has any power over me other than that which I give it through
my conscious thoughts.