I think we judge talent wrong. What do we see as talent? I think I have made the same mistake myself. Things like determination, courage, discipline, temperament, these are also talent.
For me, I am driven by two main philosophies: know more today about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
If voting made any difference they wouldn’t let us do it.
Time and space are modes by which we think and not conditions in which we live.
If people are not laughing at you’re goal, then you’re goals are too small.
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.
I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.
Education is the kindling of a flame, not the filling of a vessel.
Give a girl an education and introduce her properly into the world, and ten to one but she has the means of settling well, without further expense to anybody.