The most slavish thing was to luxuriate, whereas the most royal thing was to labor.
The treatment of sewage with a chemical called carbolic acid reduced the incidence of disease among the people and cattle of a nearby small English town. Lister follows the lead and, in 1865, develops...
Along with his ticket, passport, and luggage, Tesla still managed to make it aboard the steamship. A mutiny broke out during the voyage, and he got caught in the middle of a battle royale between crew...
Your mind has an incredible ability to cross-pollinate—that is, to connect disparate things to solve problems in unique ways or envision new creations. Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthr...
Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.
Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect.
There are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers—there are simply people that tap into their true potentials and people that don’t. What is generally recognized as great talent is, in...
But all barriers yield to one mythical quality: drive. The will to persist and overcome. To never give up. To never accept defeat.
The philosopher Edmund Burke said there is a boundary to men’s passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination. Imagination is the life force of the gen...
Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.
Most of us regard creativity in the same way we regard that statement—as a mysterious gift that can’t be explained or cultivated. But we’re wrong. Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a pr...
Don’t confuse creativity and imagination with thinking either. Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason t...
Dr. K Anders Ericsson called the 10,000 hour rule. The rule’s premise is that, regardless of whether one has an innate aptitude for an activity or not, mastery of it takes around ten thousand hours of...
Edison’s efforts then took a turn for the grisly.
Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be...
Morgan retaliated with a strategy that would become one of his hallmarks. He spread rumors to Wall Street that Westinghouse’s company was financially unstable, which dissuaded investors from giving We...
Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.
This is the beauty of imagination. An unexpected dead end in one journey is merely an opportunity to set a new course for another.
He wirelessly lit over 200 lamps from a distance of over 25 miles, proving that electricity could be transmitted great distances through the air.
Henry Ford failed in business several times and was flat broke five times before he founded the Ford Motor Company.
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