Accomplishments alone are not the hallmark of the true intellectual

Genius is 1% inspiration, 99% perspiration - Thomas Edison

 Every act of creation is first an act of destruction - Picasso

I call intuition "cosmic fishing". You feel a nibble, then you've got to hook the fish - Buckminster Fuller (Inventor, Architect, Engineer, Mathematician, Poet, and Cosmopologist)

If you want to succeed double your failure rate - Thomas Watson (Former IBM President)

In every color there is light, in every stone sleeps a crystal

Perspiration is stubbornness with a purpose

Civility is not a sign of weakness, sincerity is subject to proof  - JFK

The external world is fragile, and he who meddles with its natural way risks causing damage to himself, he who tries to grasp it thereby loses it - Lao Tzu

Do not write so that you can be understood, write so that you cannot be misunderstood - Epictetus

I didn't have time to write a short letter, so I wrote a long one instead - Mark Twain

 When something can be read without effort, great effort has gone into its writing - Enrique Jardiel Poncela