"There's a fine line between eccentrics and geniuses. If you're a little ahead of your time, you're an eccentric, and if you're too late, you're a failure, but if you hit it right on the head, you're a genius."

-- Thomas Watson, Jr.

#Too Late Quotes #Genius Quotes #Lines Quotes

“We have two ears and one tongue so that we would listen more and talk less.”
“I think it's a problem that people are considered immoral if they're not religious. That's just not true.... If you do something for a religious reason, you do it because you'll be rewarded in an afterlife or in this world. That's not quite as good as something you do for purely generous reasons.”

Source : Interview with Corey S. Powell, discovermagazine.com. July 29, 2006.
“I give nightly praise to my Maker that I never cast a ballot to bring that lazy, disreputable, ill-tempered beast into what was once my home. I'm glad that I had the courage to go on record as opposing that illegitimate, shameless flea-bag that now shares my bed and board. You abstainer, you!”

Source : FRANK B. GILBRETH JR. (1948). “CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN”
“Where do you draw the line, between love and greed? We never did know, we always wanted more. We want to take it all in, for one last time, we want to eat the world with our eyes.”
“Making mistakes is the privilege of the active. It is always the mediocre people who are negative, who spend their time proving that they were not wrong.”

Source : "The Testament of a Furniture Dealer". 1976.
“Thou shalt never wash my feet.”
“I just think it's a blessing that I was able to have the gift of words and to be able to put them into music. I was given a great gift all the way around. I didn't ever have to really go out and look for songs, you know.”

Source : Interview with Chris Rolls, www.tv.com. June 20, 2006.
“Creativity means not copying.”

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