"Ridicule can do much, for instance embitter the existence of young talents; but one thing is not given to it, to put a stop permanently to the incursion of new and powerful ideas."

-- Aron Nimzowitsch

#Powerful Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Talent Quotes

“Man is to be held only by the slightest chains; with the idea that he can break them at pleasure, he submits to them in sport.”
“To be content, to find true love, is what essentially drives us all, but if found, would it be recognized?”
“To lese-majeste and contempt of court, we must add the crime of lese-million, that fearful indignity we visit on the rich when we expose the impotence of gold.”
“I conceived and developed a new geometry of nature and implemented its use in a number of diverse fields. It describes many of the irregular and fragmented patterns around us, and leads to full-fledged theories, by identifying a family of shapes I call fractals.”
“I know about investment. It's really obvious - you buy property, let it sit for a couple of years and then sell it and reinvest.”
“But space travel can't ease the pressure on a planet grown too crowded not even with today's ships and probably not with any future ships-because stupid people won't leave the slopes of their home volcano even when it starts to smoke and rumble. What space travel does do is drain off the best brains: those smart enough to see a catastrophe before it happens, and with the guts to pay the price-abandon home, wealth, friends, relatives, everything-and go. That's a tiny fraction of one percent. But that's enough.”
“Life is made too easy. Mankind's moral fibre is giving way under the softening influence of luxury.”
“We absolutely need to reform the Congressional budget-writing process.”

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