Quotes from Sean Patrick

every field of human endeavor, the more visionary the work, the less likely it is to be quickly understood and embraced by lesser minds.

Opportunities are whispers, not foghorns. If we can't hear their soft rhythms—if we are too busy rushing about, waiting for thunderclaps of revelation, inspiration, and certainty—or if we can spot them but can't nurture them into real advantages, then we might as well be blind to them.

Just as nothing produces paralyzing apathy like doubt and resignation, nothing produces cleverness like staring down a crisis with a lionhearted snarl.

increase your IQ by thirty points, would you be interested in reading that

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 through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune. Once you flip that switch, things get a bit chaotic. Ideas start buzzing. Images start popping into your head. Fragments of all kinds of data find their way into orbit.

If you've ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to improve one small aspect of it, then you have an adventure waiting. Will you take it? This book is your invitation.

Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others.

Salvador Dali said "those who do not want to imitate anything, produce nothing.

Seek out new, interesting experiences,

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered—either by themselves or by others." -Mark Twain

Thomas Edison's teachers told him he was "too stupid to learn anything.

character-driven idea fascinated Barrios. It suggested that genius is much more than high intelligence, innate talent, extraordinary work ethic, or uncanny luck, but rather a composite manifestation; a synthesis of very specific types of worldviews and behaviors.

Well, as the preeminent mythologist Joseph Campbell said, deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive.

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 genius code. This force amplifies and colors every other piece of the code, and unlocks our potential for understanding and

What is imagination, though? Michelangelo said he saw angels in the marble and carved until he set them free.

While some people display innate talents for certain activities early

Justice Thomas McKean felt this was an accurate and appropriate application of Blackstone's declaration that publishing "bad sentiments destructive of the needs of society is the crime which society corrects.

The air is full of ideas,

While no censorship would be placed on the citizens, every person was responsible if he attacked the government in speech or writing, and such actions would lead to a criminal prosecution in a federal court.

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 focused, intentional practice.

Before you can connect dots, you need to have dots to connect. The more material you're exposed to in the world, the more grist you'll have for your imagination mill.

the most slavish thing was to "luxuriate," whereas the most royal thing was to "labor.

Beethoven was so awkward on the violin that his teachers believed him hopeless as a composer.

One of the dominant traits that define history's greatest geniuses is their genuine interest in, love for, and dedication to the well-being of other people—a rare commodity that would guide Elizabeth through her tumultuous, and ultimately triumphant, reign.