65 Quotes by Eric Weiner

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    God is not an exclamation point. He is, at his best, a semicolon, connecting people, and generating what Aldous Huxley called “human grace.” Somewhere along the way, we’ve lost sight of this.

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    I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they’ve done studies, and if anything, caffeine probably makes you a little less creative.

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    We are shaped not only by our current geography but by our ancestral one as well. Americans, for instance, retain a frontier spirit even though the only frontier that remains is that vast open space between the SUV and strip mall. We are our past.

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    Normally, we think of the religious as people who care more, not less than the rest of us. This is not true, not exactly. The truly religious care more deeply about fewer things and do’t give a hoot about the rest.

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    I’m interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of it.

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    Compromise is a skill, and like all skills it atrophies from lack of use.

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    Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

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    A Mozart symphony is very much like a Pixar movie – in the sense that Pixar movies are hugely successful because they operate on several levels at the same time.

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    Believing in everything looks a lot like believing in nothing.

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