"Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions."

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Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan

Ernest Dimnet

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“You can use the law of attraction to create your whole life in advance, right down to the next thing you are doing today.”
“He did once say the time to worry is when they stop writing about you but again I think that was pretty token of the coverage was very respectful, he rather resented the intrusions on his private life, but that was about it.”
“I do not mean to imply that the good old days were perfect. But the institutions and structure--the web--of society needed reform,not demolition. To have cut the institutional and community strands without replacing them with new ones proved to be a form of abuse to one generation and to the next. For so many Americans, the tragedy was not in dreaming that life could be better; the tragedy was that the dreaming ended.”
“Only positive consequences encourage good future performances.”
“You get to a certain age, and you feel the need to reward yourself just for existing.”
“Excellence is the name of the game...”
“The Americans cannot build aeroplanes. They are very good at refrigerators and razor blades.”
“Music is a big influence in my work and sometimes drives the energy of where I want to go.”

Source : "LatinoBuzz: An Interview with Lemon Andersen" by Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. October 3, 2012.

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