What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

What is the good of being a genius if you cannot use it as an excuse for being unemployed?

Conscience is a man's compass.

Conscience is a man's compass.

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power
of simplicity. We have a tendency it read more

The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power
of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives
and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement
for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as
the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget
that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on
outside.

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake read more

The path of least resistance and least trouble is a mental rut already made. It requires troublesome work to undertake the alternation of old beliefs. Self-conceit often regards it as a sign of weakness to admit that a belief to which we have once committed ourselves is wrong. We get so identified with an idea that it is literally a "pet" notion and we rise to its defense and stop our eyes and ears to anything different.

You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have read more

You know you've achieved perfection in design,
Not when you have nothing more to add,
But when you have nothing more to take away.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, read more

to be nobody-but-myself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make me everybody else means, to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years read more

One hour of life, crowded to the full with glorious action, and filled
with noble risks, is worth whole years of those mean observances of paltry
decorum, in which men steal through existence, like sluggish waters
through a marsh, without either honour or observation.

Big results require big ambitions.

Big results require big ambitions.