“Obsessive devotion to creating can spark that which is called 'genius.' Smarter or more gifted? The 'madness' is the insatiable drive to discover, achieve and create. Monomania can develop into 'genius,' as the individual delves deeper into the process leaving normal parameters behind.” IndividualProcessBehindsAchieveGeniusNormalCreatingMadnessLeavingDeeperDevotionSparksSmarterGiftedObsessiveInsatiableParameters Author:Paul Russo
“In a nation of celebrity worshipers, amid followers of the cult of personality, individual modesty becomes a heroic quality. I find heroism in the acceptance of anonymity, in the studied resistance to the normal American tropism toward the limelight.” IndividualNationsQualityAcceptancePersonalityNormalResistanceFollowersHeroicModestyHeroismCultAnonymityLimelightCult Of Personality Author:Shana Alexander
“Everyone in the full enjoyment of all the blessings of his life, in his normal condition, feels some individual responsibility forthe poverty of others. When the sympathies are not blunted by any false philosophy, one feels reproached by one's own abundance.” FeelsPhilosophyIndividualResponsibilityPovertyConditionsBlessingNormalEnjoymentAbundanceSympathySocial ResponsibilityIndividual Responsibility Book:Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897 Source: Eighty Years and More: Reminiscences, 1815-1897