"Picasso had a saying - 'good artists copy, great artists steal' - and we have always been shameless about stealing great ideas."

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Source : Walter Isaacson (2011). “Walter Isaacson Great Innovators e-book boxed set: Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Einstein”, p.147, Simon and Schuster

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“How sweet the past is, no matter how wrong, or how sad. How sweet is yesterday's noise”

Source : Charles Wright (2014). “The World of the Ten Thousand Things: Poems 1980-1990”, p.43, Macmillan
“Spirituality is allowing compassion and love to flourish. When belongness begins, corruption ends.”
“IT don't matter if you win by an inch or a milewinning is winning!!”
“Our souls do not like stagnation. Our souls aspire toward growth, that is, toward remembering all that we have forgotten due to our trip to this place, the earth.”

Source : Malidoma Patrice Some (1997). “Ritual: Power, Healing and Community”, p.22, Penguin
“A moderately bad man knows he is not very good: a thoroughly bad man thinks he is alright. This is common sense really. You understand sleep when you are awake, not well you are sleeping.”
“More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.”
“Yes, [I spent] two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had been thrown out of their academic jobs because they taught that there was a possibility of life coming from something other than Darwinism, who thought that possibly random selection and mutations didn't account for the universe, didn't account for gravity, didn't account for why nobody had ever seen an individual species evolve -- no one's ever seen an individual species evolve!”
“Leaving the people and places you love, is a reminder of the impermanence of this life. And the permanence of the next.”

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