“The reason why a work of genius is not easily admired from the first is that the man who has created it is extraordinary, that few other men resemble him. It is his work itself that, by fertilising the rare minds capable of understanding it, will make them increase and multiply.” MenMindFirstsReasonUnderstandingHe ManGeniusCapableIncreaseExtraordinaryReason Why Book:In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book) Source: In Search of Lost Time, Volume II: Within a Budding Grove (A Modern Library E-Book)
“The man who works 52 weeks in the year does not do his best in any one week of the year, Daniel Guggenheim, onetime head of the greatest smelting and mining family in America, impressed upon me. Real recreation quickens aspiration. The true purpose of recreation is not merely to amuse, not merely to afford pleasure, not merely to kill time, but to increase our fitness, enhance our usefulness, spur achievement.” MenYearsDoeRealAmericaPurposePleasureWeekHe ManAchievementIncreaseAspirationLeisureImpressedUsefulnessRecreationSpursMiningTrue Purpose Author:B. C. Forbes
“I used to think that having many material things would increase one's stock of happiness. I found that to be completely untrue. The trappings don't make the man at all.” ThinkingMenUsedFoundHe ManMaterialsIncreaseUntrueMaterial Things Author:George Harrison
“The best way to help a man increase his output is to help build the man. Help him increase his stature as a man, and he will just naturally do better-on the job and off.” MenWayHelpingJobsHe ManIncreaseBest WayAnd OffStatureOutput Author:Earl Nightingale