"And in this curious state I had the realization, at the moment of seeing that stranger there, that I was a person like everybody else. That I was known by my actions and words, that my internal universe was unavailable for inspection by others. They didn't know. They didn't know, because I never told them."

-- Kim Stanley Robinson

#Realization Quotes #Action Quotes #Stranger Quotes

“Looking back on myself as a little kid, I see seeds of entrepreneurship.”
“Interviewing is not a democratic art.”

Source : "Vanishing act" by Andrew O'Hagan, www.theguardian.com. September 10, 2007.
“Genius is only a greater aptitude for patience.”

Source : See Thomas Carlyle 19; Edison 2; Jane Ellice Hopkins 1
“I would give my life for a man who is looking for the truth. But I would gladly kill a man who thinks that he has found the truth.”
“I personally call one of my fans every month. I answer all of my own fan mail.”

Source : "Hot Topic: Keegan Allen" by Katie Amey, www.elle.com. December 27, 2012.
“Children, by nature, are keen, passionate and curious. What was referred to as laziness is often merely an awakening of sensitivity, a psychological inability to submit to certain absurd duties, and a natural result of the distorted, unbalanced education given to them. This laziness, which leads to an insuperable reluctance to learn, is, contrary to appearances, sometimes proof of intellectual superiority and a condemnation of the teacher.”
“Our happiest times are those in which we forget ourselves, usually in being kind to someone else. That tiny moment of self-abdication is an act of true humility: the man who loses himself finds himself and finds his happiness.”
“There is a common misconception that intelligence is synonymous with IQ. "Intelligence Quotient" or IQ was originally built to predict the academic aptitude of schoolchildren, and is nothing more than a measure of the skills needed for academic success. Intelligence, however, is a much broader concept that encompasses a person's level of skill for any of a number of subjects.”

Source : Source: bobmorris.biz

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