"A lot of people who are depressed, I think, are suffering from blocked creativity."

-- Patrick Califia

#Creativity Quotes #Thinking Quotes #People Quotes

“When you first start working, you take whatever job is offered, because you have to build your resume. But you don't think about what you're building.”
“History has never seen Emmitt Smith. I don't care what has come before me. That's why they call it history you create new history.”

Source : "Making another rush at history - Smith shooting for 1,000-yard season" by Rick Gosselin, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, p. C8, August 10, 2003.
“The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.”
“Just be yourself. Be honest, work towards a goal, and you'll achieve it.”
“Men must be capable of imagining and executing and insisting on social change if they are to reform or even maintain civilization, and capable too of furnishing the rebellion which is sometimes necessary if society is not to perish of immobility.”
“For crying out loud, stop comparing and start living! And you'll be happier with your life, I guarantee. This is crucial: the most difficult thing in the world is to be who you are not. Pretending and trying to be someone else is the official pastime of the human race. And the easiest thing in the world is to be yourself. Be happy. Live! There must be a reason why God made you tall or short or fat or thin or bumpy all over. Love who you are!”

Source : FaceBook post by Bo Sanchez from Aug 16, 2010
“Among mathematicians in general, three main categories may be distinguished; and perhaps the names logicians, formalists, and intuitionists may serve to characterize them.”

Source : Felix Klein (1893). “The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to Sept. 9, 1893 Before Members of the Congress of Mathematics Held in Connection with the World's Fair in Chicago at Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill”
“He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.”

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