Read through the most famous quotes by topic #implicit
The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated. ↗
#complication #genius #intelligence #practicality #practicality-for-intellectuals
In the West we have a tendency to be profit-oriented, where everything is measured according to the results and we get caught up in being more and more active to generate results. In the East -- especially in India -- I find that people are more content to just be, to just sit around under a banyan tree for half a day chatting to each other. We Westerners would probably call that wasting time. But there is value to it. Being with someone, listening wihtout a clock and without anticipation of results, teaches us about love. The success of love is in the loving -- it is not in the result of loving. ↗
#love #simplicity #time #love
Tightwaddery without creativity is deprivation. When there is a lack of resourcefulness, inventiveness, and innovation, thrift means doing without. When creativity combines with thrift you may be doing it without money, but you are not doing without. ↗
The relationship between ethics and thrift can be summed up in one sentence. It is wrong to save money at the expense of others. Period. ↗
What is a genius? A person who demands little to nothing from others, but is often found extremely difficult to have around. ↗
And I learned what is obvious to a child. That life is simply a collection of little lives, each lived one day at a time. That each day should be spent finding beauty in flowers and poetry and talking to animals. That a day spent with dreaming and sunsets and refreshing breezes cannot be bettered. But most of all, I learned that life is about sitting on benches next to ancient creeks with my hand on her knee and sometimes, on good days, for falling in love. ↗
