"The essence of genius is to know what to overlook."

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William James

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“Worry comes from the belief you are powerless.”
“People and organizations other than doctors increasingly are assuming power to decide which medications to prescribe or procedures to undertake. More and more, decisions about personal healthcare are no longer made by the treating physicians in consultation with their patients, and based on the doctors' expertise.”
“Our mathematics of the last few decades has wallowed in generalities and formalizations.”
“I want more out of life than I've gotten.”
“I am gay on the outside, especially among my own folk (I count Poles my own); but inside something gnaws at me; some presentiment, anxiety, dreams - or sleeplessness - melancholy, indifference - desire for life, and the next instant, desire for death; some kind of sweet peace, some kind of numbness, absent-mindedness...”

Source : Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.166, Courier Corporation
“The cutting room is where you discover the optimal length of the movie.”
“Some find that very optimistic people have benign illusions about themselves. These people may think they have more control, or more skill, than they actually do. Others have found that optimistic people have a good handle on reality. The jury is still out.”
“If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?”

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