"Was he smart? No, not exceptionally. Instead, he was a genius."

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Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.689, Simon and Schuster

Walter Isaacson

#Smart Quotes #Genius Quotes

“We speak much of the duty of making others happy. No day should pass, we say, on which we do not put a little cheer into some discouraged heart, make the path a little smoother for someoneâ€™s tired feet, or help some fainting robin unto its nest again. This is right. We cannot put too great emphasis upon the duty of giving happiness and cheer to others. But it is no less a duty that we should be happy and cheerful ourselves.”
“I came from an intellectual family. Most were doctors, preachers, teachers, businessmen. My grandfather was a small businessman. His father was an abolitionist doctor, and his father was an immigrant from Germany.”
“I try to influence this improvisation in two ways. One is by centering on reflections, in both senses of the word: acoustic reflections as well as visual reflections from a mirror or surface, and then reflecting on the material in a contemplative way. The other influence is listening to the tails of the sounds that you make.”

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“There's nothing better than a party that turns into a death trap.”
“Poetry arrived in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where it came from, from winter or a river. I don't know how or when...”
“My worst image of myself is me sitting on a bed, smoking a cigarette, waiting for a phone call and thinking thoughts that don't join together.”

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“I felt if I went chronologically, I'd get bogged down in childhood and that's part of our culture of complaint in America. This endless wailing about your childhood.”
“There is something so beautiful and inspiring about picking ourselves up with humility and dignity after we fall.”

Source : Speech in Brisbane, Australia, March 17, 1982.

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