"Things often offer themselves to our mind..." - Quote by Francois De La Rochefoucauld
Things often offer themselves to our mind in a more finished form in the very first thought, than we might have made them by muchart and study.
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“To achieve greatness one should live as if they will never die.”
“Nothing is impossible; there are ways that lead to everything, and if we had sufficient will we should always have sufficient means. It is often merely for an excuse that we say things are impossible.”
“Only great men have great faults.”
More on Intuition
“There is the voice that everybody hears... saying to you, "You should do this, you should be this, you ought to, you got to." And then there is the still small voice - for some people not so small - inside every human being that calls you to something that is greater than yourself.”
“Every known fact in natural science was divined by the presentiment of somebody, before it was actually verified.”
“To some people, I am a kind of Merlin who takes lots of crazy chances, but rarely makes mistakes.”
More on Creativity
“... if we can imagine the art of fiction come alive and standing in our midst, she would undoubtedly bid us to break her and bullyher, as well as honour and love her, for so her youth is renewed and her sovereignty assured.”
“I think that all creative people are a little bit nuts.”
“I try not to violate what came before me and to leave lots of wiggle room for those who will follow.”