Michael J Gelb Famous Quotes
"Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part."
"Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it."
Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.
A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.
Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.
Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.
"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."
Michael J Gelb Quotations
"To think ill of mankind, and not to wish ill to them, is perhaps the highest wisdom and virtue."
William Hazlitt
I'm astounded by people who want to 'know' the universe when it's hard enough to find your way around Chinatown.
Woody Allen
The attempt to combine wisdom and power has only rarely been successful and then only for a short while.
George Baker
"Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in"
H R Haldeman
"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms."
Henri Frdric Amiel
We haven't got the power to destroy the planet -- or to save it. But we might have the power to save ourselves.
Michael Crichton
The defining function of the artist is to cherish consciousness.
Max Eastman
"If your treat an individual ... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
"We were a silent, hidden thought in the folds of oblivion, and we have become a voice that causes the heavens to tremble."
Kahlil Gibran
"Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice."
George Jackson