Creating Opportunities
A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds.
— Sir Francis Bacon
Things are only impossible . . . until they’re not.
Talent is like a marksman who hits a target which others cannot reach; genius is like the marksman who hits a target, as far as which others cannot even see.
— Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher
There is in American society a mad rush to distinguish oneself, and, as soon as something has been accepted as distinguishing, to package it in such a way that everyone can feel included.
— Alan Bloom, Closing of the American Mind
The courage of the poet is to keep ajar the door that leads into madness.
We don’t have one big advantage so we have to weave a rope of many small advantages.
— Jeff Bezos
Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.
— Tom Stoppard