Eric Weiner Quotes
Top 60 wise famous quotes and sayings by Eric Weiner
Eric Weiner Famous Quotes & Sayings
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Toward the end of his life, Fred Terman wrote that he had no regrets: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record.
When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused.
Reason cannot account for those moments in life that "bewilder the intellect yet utterly quiet the heart," as G.K. Chesterton observed.
Depression, contrary to what we normally believe, is not sadness but an inability to fully feel sadness. Depression is sorrow denied.
The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so did Gustav Klimt.
Tell me, Comrade, what is capitalism?" "The exploitation of man by man." "And what is communism?" "The reverse." Okay,
It is pure id. Freud would not approve. He regarded the obvious with the same contempt most of us reserve for wine spritzers.
Geniuses are always marginalized to one degree or another. Someone wholly invested in the status quo is unlikely to disrupt it.
There's no one on the island telling them they're not good enough, so they just go ahead and sing and paint and write.
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.
Why do we lose our temper? Because we love perfection. Create a little room for imperfection in your life.
mandating innovation is an oxymoron, maybe not as absurd as "scheduling spontaneity," but perilously close. I
When the last tree is cut, When the last river is emptied, When the last fish is caught, Only then will Man realize that he can not eat money.
The good life . . . cannot be mere indulgence. It must contain a measure of grit and truth," observed geographer Yi-Fu Tuan. Tuan
The British scholar Avner Offer calls attention "the universal currency of well-being." Attentive people, in other words, are happy people. Tashi
If you've ever had a rational thought or asked Why? or gazed at the night sky in silent wonder, then you have had a Greek moment.
thambos, "that reverential terror and awe aroused by the proximity of any supernatural force or being which one discerns,
The point is, the "best" technology or idea doesn't always prevail. Sometimes chance and the law of unintended consequences win out.
I've always believed that happiness is just around the corner. The trick is fining the right corner.
Ideas are like bananas. That bananas grow only in tropical regions doesn't make them any less delicious in Scandinavia.
Here is more to life than just pleasure. We want to achieve our happiness and not just experience it.
[Happiness is] a ghost, it's a shadow. You can't really chase it. It's a by-product, a very pleasant side effect to a life lived well.
Just as not all butterflies produce a hurricane, not all outbreaks of bubonic plague produce a Renaissance.
The measure of a society, he said, is how well it transforms pain and suffering into something worthwhile.
First of all, nothing good ever came from a beanbag chair. Nothing. I am speaking from personal experience.
Joseph Campbell, who when asked what spiritual practice he followed said, "I underline books." Me too.