"It is not enough to be in the right place at the right time. You should also have an open mind at the right time."

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Source : "My Brain Is Open: The Mathematical Journeys of Paul Erdos". Book by Bruce Schechter, 1998.

Paul Erdos

#Mind Quotes #Enough Quotes #Should Quotes

“I am definitely going to watch the Emmys this year! My makeup team is nominated for â€œBest Special Effects.â€”
“I like to sing very much.”
“The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl.”
“Vinyl, CDs or laptops, it doesn't matter - you should use whatever you're comfortable with. If you're on the dancefloor and there's good music coming out of the speakers, that should be enough. If you're standing there storing your chin going: 'This would sound better if it was on vinyl', yes it might do, but at the end of the day, people want to go to a party.”
“Most oldsters are fascinated by the Future, while the young love to look back to earlier days, especially their own.”
“Watch it...people who keep things inside them develop all sorts of disease...all that emotional gunk's got to find an outlet. Angry people develop cysts; stubborn people get arthritis; resentful people die of cancer.”
“Corporate identity specialists spend their time rechristening other companies, conducting a legal search and a linguistic search to insure that the name is not an insult in another language.”
“You can have what you want- if you know how to form the mold for it in your own thoughts. There is no dream that may not come true, if you but learn to use the Creative Force working through you. The methods that work for one will work for all. The key to power lies in using what you have...freely, fully and thus opening wide your channels for more creative force to flow through you.”

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