"The man of genius whether as artist or thinker requires a mass of accidental variations to select from and a rigidly selective process of attention."

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Source : "The Foundations of Normal and Abnormal Psychology" by Boris Sidis, (p. 98), 1914.

Boris Sidis

#Artist Quotes #Men Quotes #Attention Quotes

“It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.”
“Your mind must control, but you must have heart . . . . Give your feeling free.”
“Sometimes you have to be a bad person to save yourself, and it takes a little chunk out of your soul, but you do it anyway.”
“I'm going to leave y'all with one thought. I'm a big believer in fate. I have a good feeling about this.”
“What writing practice, like Zen practice does is bring you back to the natural state of mind...The mind is raw, full of energy, alive and hungry. It does not think in the way we were brought up to think-well-mann ered, congenial.”
“Al Gore's performances could be a case study in abnormal-psychology classes.”
“I feel comfortable with women. I have two sisters, so I grew up in a female-dominated environment.”
“Computers bootstrap their own offspring, grow so wise and incomprehensible that their communiquÃ©s assume the hallmarks of dementia: unfocused and irrelevant to the barely-intelligent creatures left behind. And when your surpassing creations find the answers you asked for, you can't understand their analysis and you can't verify their answers. You have to take their word on faith.”

Source : Peter Watts (2014). “Firefall”, p.32, Head of Zeus

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