“Innovators and creators are persons who can to a higher degree than average accept the condition of aloneness. They are more willing to follow their own vision, even when it takes them far from the mainland of the human community. Unexplored places do not frighten them- or not, at any rate, as much as they frighten those around them. This is one of the secrets of their power. That which we call genius has a great deal to do with courage and daring, a great deal to do with nerve.” HumansPersonsCommunityDealsSecretAcceptingVisionConditionsWillingGeniusHigherDegreesRateAverageCreatorNervesDaringInnovatorsUnexplored Author:Nathaniel Branden
“Madame de Stael thought it was pride in mankind to endeavour to penetrate the secret of the universe; and speaking of the higher metaphysics she said: "I prefer the Lord's Prayer to it all."” SaidUniversePrayerSecretLordMankindPrideHigherMetaphysicsPenetrateEndeavour Author:Madame de Stael
“Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain higher claims in secret, and looks about for the means of satisfying them.” LifeLooksMeanSeemsCertainSecretHigherClaimsCherishSatisfyingNurseVulgarCommonplace Book:Maxims and Reflections Source: Maxims and Reflections
“Take the happiest man, the one most envied by the world, and in nine cases out of ten his inmost consciousness is one of failure. Either his ideals in the line of his achievements are pitched far higher than the achievements themselves, or else he has secret ideals of which the world knows nothing, and in regard to which he inwardly knows himself to be found wanting.” KnowsMenWorldFoundLinesSecretConsciousnessCasesFailureHigherTenAchievementIdealsRegardNineEnviedHappiest Man Book:Writings, 1902-1910 Source: Writings, 1902-1910
“Science, unguided by a higher abstract principle, freely hands over its secrets to a vastly developed and commercially inspired technology, and the latter, even less restrained by a supreme culture saving principle, with the means of science creates all the instruments of power demanded from it by the organization of Might.” MeanHandsMightScienceCultureSecretPrinciplesTechnologyHigherOrganizationInstrumentsInspiredSupremeSavingAbstractLatterOver It Author:Johan Huizinga
“It's really important that you feel good. Because this feeling good is what goes out as a signal into the universe and starts to attract more of itself to you. So the more you can feel good, the more you will attract the things that help you feel good and that will keep bringing you up higher and higher.” InspirationalFeelsImportantHelpingFeelingsInspirationUniverseSecretPositiveHigherAttractionFeel GoodLaw Of AttractionSignalsSecret Law Of Attraction Author:Joe Vitale
“First you look for discipline and control. You want to exercise your will, bend the language your way, bend the world your way. You want to control the flow of impulses, images, words, faces, ideas. But there's a higher place, a secret aspiration. You want to let go. You want to lose yourself in language, become a carrier or messenger.” WorldWayWantFirstsLooksIdeasFacesLanguageLosesSecretHigherDisciplineExerciseLetting GoFlowImpulseAspirationMessengersLosing YourselfCarrier Book:Conversations with Don DeLillo Source: Conversations with Don DeLillo