Quotes from Sean Patrick

A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the surface of the globe; so intricate, so inconceivably complex are the processes in Nature.

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.

illuminates the path to greatness via a unique, accessible, and practical decoding of genius.

secure military communications, and even pictures to any point in the world. "When wireless is fully applied the earth will be converted into a huge brain, capable of response in every one of its parts," Tesla promised.

There's a catch to "combinatorial creativity," though. 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.

we can easily see that being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else.

His uncles had given him some money, and his boss had given him a letter of recommendation that read, "I know two great men and you are one of them; the other is this young man.

We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our "now you're supposed to" society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?

We're constantly confronted with the lazy, the apathetic, the immoral, the indifferent, the irresponsible, and the disconnected—the signs of a decaying culture.

York City attorney—in 1887 to learn more about his alternating current theories and designs. Tesla passionately described how the entire system would work,

deep down inside, we don't seek the meaning of life, but the experience of being alive. And that's what the nature of genius is ultimately about.

Psychologist Dr. Alfred Barrios conducted research on the nature of genius in the seventies. He set out to answer the same basic question I posed just a page ago: why do some people rise to greatness whereas others don't? To

declared Tesla as the true "father of radio.

His imagination was a factory with unlimited resources, and the world an exciting playground with unlimited possibilities.

Imagine the pressure Tesla faced: both the world's most powerful financier—one of the last enemies you'd want—and the world's greatest inventor were trying to draw a bead on him and pull the trigger. Most men would've quietly resigned, or begged for scraps, but not Tesla.

Author Philip Dick once wrote, "The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If you can control the meaning of words, you can control the people who must use the words.

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 almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a process.

Defiantly do the work instead and Resistance withers.

the relation between IQ and success follows the law of diminishing returns.

Betrayed by men he trusted, Tesla found himself unemployed and in desperate need of work to survive.

that this form of electricity would ever be available in non-metropolitan areas.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path. And to, like Tesla did, create it exactly as you envision it, no matter how much work it takes, or how many people try to stop you.

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.

takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.