To me, it's about what you are going to do with the short time you have left on this earth. - Hugh MacLeod

Keep your day job. The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task at hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh MacLeod

Nobody can tell you if what you are doing is good, meaningful or worthwhile. The more compelling the path, the more lonely it is. -Hugh MacLeod

The market for something to believe in is infinite. -Hugh MacLeod

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. -Einstein

Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. - Einstein

The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. -Einstein

Any man who reads too much and uses his brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. -Einstein

We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them. -Einstein

It's not that I'm so smart, it's that I stay with the problems longer. -Einstein

Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results. - Einstein

Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds. -Einstein

"Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts." (Sign hanging in Einstein's office at Princeton)

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed. - Einstein

In order to form an immaculate member of a flock of sheep one must, above all, be a sheep. -Einstein

Education is what remains after one has forgotten everything he learned in school.-Einstein

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.- Einstein

The only real valuable thing is intuition.- Einstein

I wonder about this one. Why is intuition so important? What happens when we don't use it? Steve Jobs felt that intuition was the most important thing motivating his work and his life, and he sought ways to develop his awareness of it. Intuition is that thing we feel but cannot explain why we feel it. An automatic response when we encounter something. Intuition is marked by experiences or things we notice collectively but haven't yet figured out the details of. E.g. when we first meet someone we may be surprisingly uncomfortable for reasons we cannot even understand. Only later, after reflection or getting to know the person we may find out why. Intuition allows us to make relatively quick judgments about a situation without gathering a ton of information- suggesting that the rational act of gathering the information or reverting to logical thinking over our immediate emotional reaction could skirt some of our underlying uncertainties or certainties about whether something is right to act on. Examples include feelings of positivity or conversely, discomfort, about someone you are interviewing, feelings about a first date, feelings about a potential new employer, feelings about which career path you should take, feelings upon meeting your cousin's new friends, feelings about whether entrepreneurship or big company format is right for you. Intuition can help lead you to decisions to pursue these things whether or not you have gathered all the information beforehand. Intuition provides shortcuts to things that if we had to research them, would take thousands of hours for all the decisions we have to make in a given day. Instead, intuition acts collectively on the learned experiences we have had prior to the moment/ event/ or person on which we use it.

I wonder how Einstein used intuition? He certainly used it to find and pursue his calling. He probably called on intuition many times over his lifetime to convince him to become an physicist/astrophysicist/etc. instead of rationalizing himself into the life of a highly-paid doctor, lawyer or businessman. He is easy to applaud and we don't question the correctness of his path (most of us), but just as importantly the world also needs doctors, lawyers and businessmen. How did he know he would be destined for success? He didn't. He was just one of the few who took the chance. Thank goodness only a few of us are irrational enough to take that chance or the world's production and services would likely stop. Perhaps it's proportionally likely according to the rules of natural selection that only a small percentage of people will take such a risk and devote their life to a mostly unpaid hobby? I wonder what Darwin would say.

Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character.- Einstein

Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.- Einstein

Great Albert Einstein Quote Site

http://rescomp.stanford.edu/~cheshire/EinsteinQuotes.html

I never think of the future. It comes soon enough.- Albert Einstein

Doing anything worthwhile takes forever. Ninety percent of what separates successful people and failed people is time, effort, and stamina. - Hugh MacLeod

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Hey Everyone! I decided to start this blog b/c I love quotes so much and I know people don't want a million status updates on Facebook about my new favorite fascination with this quote or that one, or a certain 20 that day. So, here goes! I am creating my very own quote page- where I can write whatever I want on them, about them, with them, for them, above them, all over them, under them. In sum, quotes!quotes!quotes! Here goes.