Quotes from Michael J. Gelb

By stretching yourself beyond your perceived level of confidence you accelerate your development of competence.

How does your experience of one sense affect all the others? In addition to being the conduits of pleasure and pain, your senses are the midwives of intelligence.

Your brain has a capacity for learning that is virtually limitless, which makes every human a potential genius.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Champions know that success is inevitable, that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Da Vinci composed what is perhaps the most outstanding employment application letter of all time: "I wish to work miracles.…" —LEONARDO DA VINCI

We have more possibilities, more freedom, more options than any people who have ever lived. Yet there is more junk, more mediocrity, more garbage to sort through than ever, too.

A champion views resistance as a gift of energy.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious database outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This database is the source of your hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are. The wise people regularly consult that smarter part.

Champions know that success is inevitable that there is no such thing as failure, only feedback. They know that the best way to forecast the future is to create it.

Confusion is the welcome mat at the door of creativity.

Crazy people who are productive are geniuses. Crazy people who are rich are eccentric. Crazy people who are neither productive nor rich are just plain crazy. Geniuses and crazy people are both out in the middle of a deep ocean geniuses swim, crazy people drown. Most of us are sitting safely on the shore. Take a chance and get your feet wet.

Life is a continuous exercise in creative problem solving.

Over-seriousness is a warning sign for mediocrity and bureaucratic thinking. People who are seriously committed to mastery and high performance are secure enough to lighten up.

Brain researchers estimate that your unconscious data base outweighs the conscious on an order exceeding ten million to one. This data base is the source of you hidden, natural genius. In other words, a part of you is much smarter than you are.

Intuition is the art of listening, with an inner ear, to the rhythms and melodies of your own "body music." T

Innovation is the creation and delivery of new customer value in the marketplace.

Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young. — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses its purity… even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind. — LEONARDO DA VINCI

The great physician, humanitarian and Nobel laureate Albert Schweitzer explained, "The greatest thing is to give thanks for everything. He who has learned this knows what it means to live.

Benjamin Franklin cautioned, "When you're finished changing, you're finished.

The minute a man ceases to grow, no matter what his years, that minute he begins to be old. — WILLIAM JAMES

In the central place of every heart there is a recording chamber. So long as it receives a message of beauty, hope, cheer, and courage — so long are you young. When the wires are all down and your heart is covered with the snow of pessimism and the ice of cynicism, then, and only then, are you grown old. — GENERAL DOUGLAS MACARTHUR

As playwright Wilson Mizner observed, "A good listener is not only popular everywhere, but after a while he gets to know something.