"One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive hour. Write it on your heart that every day is the best day in the year. No man has learned anything rightly, until he knows that every day is Doomsday."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 5 bookmarks

"So much of our time is spent in preparation, so much in routine, and so much in retrospect, that the amount of each person's genius is confined to a very few hours."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Time and Time Management | 2 bookmarks

"Do what you love. Know you own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still."

Thoreau, Henry David | Passion | 3 bookmarks

"You must live in the present, launch yourself on every wave, find your eternity in each moment."

Thoreau, Henry David | Present | 4 bookmarks

"What is genius but the power of expressing a new individuality?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Genius | 2 bookmarks

"Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks."

Beecher, Henry Ward | Genius | 1 bookmarks

"Men of genius are not quick judges of character. Deep thinking and high imagining blunt that trivial instinct by which you and I size people up."

Beerbohm, Sir Max | Genius | 1 bookmarks

"Genius makes its observations in short-hand; talent writes them out at length."

Bovee, Christian Nevell | Genius | 2 bookmarks

"Since when was genius found respectable?"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett | Genius | 1 bookmarks

"Every man who observes vigilantly and resolves steadfastly grows unconsciously into genius."

Bulwer-Lytton, Edward G. | Genius | 1 bookmarks