If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

If a man has common sense, he has all the sense there is.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

We live at the edge of the miraculous.

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times read more

When nothing seems to help, I go look at a stonecutter hammering away at
his rock perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it.
Yet at the hundred and first blow it will split in two, and I know it was
not that blow that did it, but all that had gone before.

Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
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Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert
integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers,
the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, I
don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you read more

The first principle of ethical power is Purpose... By purpose, I
don't mean your objective or intention-something toward which you are
always striving. Purpose is something bigger. It is the picture you have
of yourself-the kind of person you want to be or the kind of life you want
to lead.

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it
is fine," is the greatest understanding read more

The fact that you are willing to say, "I do not understand, and it
is fine," is the greatest understanding you could exhibit.

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know
in order to find out what we do read more

Creativity, as has been said, consists largely of rearranging what we know
in order to find out what we do not know....Hence, to think creatively, we
must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Non-ambiguity is the shaping force of reality.

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at
fifteen your double, and after that, your friend read more

Your son at five is your master, at ten your slave, at
fifteen your double, and after that, your friend or your foe depending on
his bringing up.