Charles Eisenstein Quotes
The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
Quotes to Explore
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Surreal fiction is a sophisticated art form. Events happen divorced from conventional logic, as events in a dream may happen. But unlike dreams, everything in the story contributes to an overall coherent point, impression or emotion.
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When nature has work to be done, she creates a genius to do it.
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I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.
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Industry is a better horse to ride than genius.
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When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.
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Taste is the common sense of genius.
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To understand Europe, you have to be a genius - or French.
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When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.
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Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.
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Pun was just a natural-born genius with music, and he basically taught me so many tricks on how to make better music, even though I was the one that discovered him. He was so far advanced than me; he taught me a lot.
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I have been writing fairy tales for as long as I can remember. Not much has changed in terms of my natural attraction to the narrative techniques of fairy tales. My appreciation of them in the traditional stories has deepened, especially of flat and unadorned language, intuitive logic, abstraction, and everyday magic.
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I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.
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When my nephew was 3 and 4, he would say the most genius things. He said, You're hammer macho with FBI dogs. I thought it was just one of those great lines.
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If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.
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The man of genius inspires us with a boundless confidence in our own powers.
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Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.
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We can find people on the internet who agree with our ideas, no matter how crazy. Democracies do not work if we are not operating on some level based on reason and fact and logic - and not just passion. We're going to have to find ways to push back on propaganda and listen to those we don't agree with.
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In the judgment of the most competent living mathematicians, Fräulein Noether was the most significant creative mathematical genius thus far produced since the higher education of women began.
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Applied properly, it logic can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.
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You are a potential genius; there is no problem you cannot solve, and no answer you cannot find somewhere.
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If Lady Gaga is like an orange Bugatti Veyron, then I am like a black 1970 Chevelle.
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I believe in the Golden Rule - The Man with the Gold... Rules.
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It seems appropriate that the author of '1984' was a British citizen. George Orwell must have seen how easily the great British public's lamb-like disposition toward its leaders could be exploited to create a police state.
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The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.
