Virtually all top achievers know that to really get ahead, you've got to be willing to color outside the lines. Here's why
Genius is childhood recaptured.
We live in a world where there is more and more information, and less and less meaning.
Postmodernity is said to be a culture of fragmentary sensations, eclectic nostalgia, disposable simulacra, and promiscuous superficiality, in which the traditionally valued qualities of depth, coherence, meaning, originality, and authenticity are evacuated or dissolved amid the random swirl of empty signals.
Illusion is no longer possible, because the real is no longer possible.
What I am, I don't know. I am the simulacrum of myself.
History that repeats itself turns to farce. Farce that repeats itself turns to history.
The key to success is to focus our conscious mind on things we desire not things we fear.
A simile, to be perfect, must both illustrate and ennoble the subject; must show it to the understanding in a clearer view, and display it to the fancy with greater dignity; but either of these qualities may be sufficient to recommend it. . . . That it may be complete, it is required to exhibit, independently of its references, a pleasing image; for a simile is said to be a short episode.
The verdict on Prince Metternich will soon be out: An excellent diplomat and a bad politician.
Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?' —That's what I'd like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.