26 Quotes by Sean Patrick

It’s about how we can empower ourselves to bring true meaning to our lives and the lives of others in ways most people would consider impossible.

The air is full of ideas,” Henry Ford said. “They are knocking you in the head all the time. You only have to know what you want, then forget it, and go about your business. Suddenly, the idea will come through. It was there all the time.

Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune, but great minds rise above it.

What is generally recognized as “great talent” is, in almost all cases, nothing more than the outward manifestations of an unwavering dedication to a process.

Facts and ideas are dead in themselves and it is the imagination that gives life to them.” -W. I. B. Beveridge.

Word slowly spread among Manhattan’s elite that a man of incomparable genius was digging ditches to survive. Sensing an opportunity, a band of wealthy investors eventually approached Tesla to develop an improved system of arc lighting.

Ray Bradbury said that thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious. When you think you sit calmly and try to reason through something in a structured, logical way. Creativity dances to a different tune. Once you flip that switch, things get a bit chaotic. Ideas start buzzing. Images start popping into your head. Fragments of all kinds of data find their way into orbit.

Thousands of geniuses live and die undiscovered – either by themselves or by others.” -Mark Twain.

Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthroughs to his violin breaks, which he believed helped him connect ideas in very different ways.