"Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean; geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet."

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Source : Michael J. Gelb (2014). “Creativity on Demand: How to Ignite and Sustain the Fire of Genius”, p.90, Sounds True

Michael J. Gelb

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“The military gave me structure and process. That reflects on the way I believe we should handle legislative matters. If we do it that way in any field, the results are usually better.”

Source : "Congress at War". www.politico.com. July, 2015.
“Its useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.”
“I'm talking about the essence of humanity. Hope is mixed into the blood of every human being, everywhere and in every time.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com
“Never interrupt a lady when she is speaking to you, as if what you have to say is more important.”
“You are - all your experience just kind of accumulates, and the novel takes a richness of its own simply because it has the weight of all those years that one's put into it.”
“I am an actress, I earn money, I am well-known. I don't think it is altruism to become engaged in humanitarian work. It's the least one can do.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.”
“To [man] it is granted to have whatever he chooses, to be whatever he wills.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1953). “Oratio de Hominis Dignitate: Oration on the Dignity of Man. English Translation by Elizabet Livermore Forbes”

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