"Even the great scientists have reported that their creative break-throughs came at a time of mental quietude. The surprising result of a nationwide inquiry among America's most eminent mathematicians, including Einstein, to find out their working methods, was that thinking 'plays only a subordinate part in the brief, decisive phase of the creative act itself'."

-- Eckhart Tolle

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #America Quotes

“Ramadan is a celebration of a faith known for great diversity and racial equality”
“It's always convenient for certain people to heap accusations on Israel.”
“If you asked twenty good men to-day what they thought the highest of the virtues, nineteen of them would reply, Unselfishness. But if you asked almost any of the great Christians of old he would have replied, Love - You see what has happened? A negative term has been substituted for a positive, and this is of more than philological importance. The negative ideal of Unselfishness carries with it the suggestion not primarily of securing good things for others, but of going without them ourselves, as if our abstinence and not their happiness was the important point.”
“All the rest is silence On the other side of the wall, And the silence ripeness, And the ripeness all.”
“One thing only has been lent to youth and age in common--discontent.”

Source : 'Youth's Agitations' (1852)
“I am not really doing research, just trying to cultivate myself.”
“A lot of independent films offer a harsh reality check.”
“There are so many men and women who hold no distinctive positions but whose contribution towards the development of society has been enormous.”

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