26 Quotes by Sean Patrick

If you’ve ever dreamed of playing a hand in the development of humankind, or if you just have a burning desire to improve one small aspect of it, then you have an adventure waiting. Will you take it? This book is your invitation.

Resistance has a fatal weakness, though. We can turn the tables on it. It can be defeated.

We do not need magic to transform our world. We carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.

Expand your interests in life. Seek out new, interesting experiences, no matter how mundane or inconsequential they might seem to others.

Greatness does not come lightly. It requires that you make sacrifices of time, interests, and – sometimes – possessions. The further you move toward greatness, the more greatness demands from you.

Our first endeavors are purely instinctive prompting of an imagination vivid and undisciplined,” Tesla wrote. “As we grow older reason asserts itself and we become more and more systematic and designing. But those early impulses, though not immediately productive, are of the greatest moment and may shape our very destinies.

Do not separate text from historical background,” admonished James Madison. “If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

Voltaire once said, “I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.” We would be smart to uphold this ideal.