"It occurred to me by intuition, and..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.
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“A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.”
“Genius is when an idea and the execution of that idea are simultaneous.”
“So I am living without fats, without meat, without fish, but am feeling quite well this way. It always seems to me that man was not born to be a carnivore.”
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“Education produces natural intuitions, and natural intuitions are erased by education.”
“The best calculation is the absence of calculation. Once you have attained a certain level of recognition, others generally figure that when you do something, it's for an intelligent reason. So it's really foolish to plot out your movements too carefully in advance. You're better off acting capriciously.”
“Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction.”
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“I came on the old and best ways of writing through ignorance and experiment and was startled when truths leaped out of brushes like quail before gunshot.”
“Most characters are composed of snippets here and there of people I've known, and all rolled into the character I've created. They do become like their own people.”
“Don’t let people interfere with you. Boot ’em out, turn off the phone, hide away, get it done. If you carry a short story over to the next day you may overnight intellectualize something about it and try to make it too fancy, try to please someone.”