"A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible."

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Source : Marty Neumeier (2014). “The 46 Rules of Genius: An Innovator's Guide to Creativity”, p.31, New Riders

Marty Neumeier

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“The lady ... is not a producer; in most communities productive labor is by consent unladylike. On the other hand she is the heaviest of consumers, and theorists have not been wanting to maintain that the more she spends the better off society is.”
“After you leap, before you land, is God.”
“Sense of sin may be often great, and more felt than grace; yet not be more than grace. A man feels the ache of his finger more sensibly than the health of his whole body; yet he knows that the ache of a finger is nothing so much as the health of the whole body.”
“It was five years since I'd won a race, so I was a bit bewildered.”
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
“In the '90s, guitar solos were dead.”
“Lay down this rule of friendship: neither ask nor consent to do what is wrong. The plea, 'for friendship's sake,' is a discreditable one, and should not be admitted for a moment. We should ask from friends and do for friends only what is good.”
“I use color as my chief guide. But I always squeeze an avocado - you want the fruit to feel close to the skin. If you can feel a separation, the avocado is past its prime. The avocado should have a little give, but not much.”

Source : "Baking With Dorie Greenspan: Meyer lemons, Mediterranean Yogurt Cake, game day eats and more". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. January 27, 2016.

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