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Artists And Creative Workers - People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Haven't Been Contented With Mediocrity. They Haven't Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others Do Them, But Always A Little Better. Few Are Those Who See With Their Own Eyesand Feel With Their Own Hearts.

-Albert Einstein

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Artists And Creative Workers

Albert Einstein

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Artists And Creative Workers - People Who Have Accomplished Work Worthwhile Have Had A Very High Sense Of The Way To Do Things. They Haven't Been Contented With Mediocrity. They Haven't Confined Themselves To The Beaten Tracks; They Have Never Been Satisfied To Do Things Just As Others Do Them, But Always A Little Better. Few Are Those Who See With Their Own Eyesand Feel With Their Own Hearts.

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No Idea Is Conceived In Our Mind Independent Of Our Five Senses [i.e., No Idea Is Divinely Inspired].

A Man's Ethical Behaviour Should Be Based Effectually On Sympathy, Education, And Social Ties And Needs; No Religious Basis Is Necessary. Man Would Indeed Be In A Poor Way If He Had To Be Restrained By Fear Of Punishment And Hope Of Reward After Death.

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The Distinction Between The Past, Present And Future Is Only A Stubbornly Persistent Illusion.

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The Majority Of The Stupid Is Invincible And Guaranteed For All Time. The Terror Of Their Tyranny, However, Is Alleviated By Their Lack Of Consistency.

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You Never Fail Until You Stop Trying.

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The Secret To Creativity Is Knowing How To Hide Your Sources.

Experience Is Knowledge. All The Rest Is Information.

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Knowledge Is Dead; The School, However, Serves The Living.

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Strange Is Our Situation Here On Earth. Each Of Us Comes For A Short Visit, Not Knowing Why, Yet Sometimes Seeming To Divine A Purpose.

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There Could Be No Greater Calamity Than A Permanent Discord Between Us And The Arab People. Despite The Great Wrong That Has Been Done Us, We Must Strive For A Just And Lasting Compromise With The Arab People Let Us Recall That In Former Times No People Lived In Greater Friendship With Us Than The Ancestors Of These Arabs.

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Growth Comes Through Analogy; Through Seeing How Things Connect, Rather Than Only Seeing How They Might Be Different.

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The Basic Laws Of The Universe Are Simple, But Because Our Senses Are Limited, We Can’t Grasp Them. There Is A Pattern In Creation.

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Out Of Complexity, Find Simplicity!

All Religions, Arts And Sciences Are Branches Of The Same Tree.

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Common Sense Needs Constant Reappraisal.

Cherish The Questions, For The Answers Keep Changing.

The Enormous Mental Resilience, Without Which No Chess Player Can Exist, Was So Much Taken Up By Chess That He Could Never Free His Mind Of This Game

Energy Cannot Be Created Or Destroyed, It Can Only Be Changed From One Form To Another.

Your Fervent Wishes Can Only Find Fulfillment If You Succeed In Attaining Love And Understanding Of Men, And Animals, And Plants, And Stars, So That Every Joy Becomes Your Joy And Every Pain Your Pain.

There Is Possibility In Every Difficulty.

Selection [of Un Delegates] By Governments Cannot Give The Peoples Of The World The Feeling Of Being Fairly And Proportionately Represented. The Moral Authority Of The Un Would Be Considerable Enhanced If The Delegates Were Elected Directly By The People. Were They Responsible To An Electorate, They Would Have Much More Freedom To Follow Their Consciences.

For Science Can Only Ascertain What Is, But Not What Should Be, And Outside Of Its Domain Value Judgments Of All Kinds Remain Necessary. Religion, On The Other Hand, Deals Only With Evaluations Of Human Thought And Action: It Cannot Justifiably Speak Of Facts And Relationships Between Facts.

If God Has Created The World, His Primary Worry Was Certainly Not To Make Its Understanding Easy For Us

I Believe That Whatever We Do Or Live For Has Its Causality; It Is Good, However, That We Cannot See Through To It.

Have The Courage To Take Your Own Thoughts Seriously, For They Will Shape You.

During The Youthful Period Of Mankind's Spiritual Evolution Human Fantasy Created Gods In Man's Own Image, Who, By The Operations Of Their Will Were Supposed To Determine, Or At Any Rate To Influence, The Phenomenal World. Man Sought To Alter The Disposition Of These Gods In His Own Favour By Means Of Magic And Prayer.

Long Hair Minimizes The Need For Barbers; Socks Can Be Done Without; One Leather Jacket Solves The Coat Problem For Many Years; Suspenders Are Superfluous.

Leather Jackets

Not Until We Dare To Regard Ourselves As A Nation, Not Until We Respect Ourselves, Can We Gain The Esteem Of Others, Or Rather Only Then Will It Come Of Its Own Accord

Keep On Sowing Your Seed, For You Never Know Which Will Grow - Perhaps It All Will.

The Finest Emotion Of Which We Are Capable Is The Mystic Emotion.

I Refuse To Engage In An Intellectual Battle With An Unarmed Man.

Make A Lot Of Walks To Get Healthy And Don't Read That Much But Save Yourself Some Until You're Grown Up.

I Believe That Pipe Smoking Contributes To A Somewhat Calm And Objective Judgement In All Human Affairs.

Thinking Is Hard Work; That's Why So Few Do It.

It Is Also A Natural Thing For A Serious Young Man That He Should Form For Himself As Precise An Idea As Possible Of The Goal Of His Desires.

Do You Believe In Miracles? Well, You Should. In Fact, Life Itself Is A Big Miracle. There Are So Many Things That Are Beyond Our Understanding. There Are Two Ways To Live: You Can Live As If Nothing Is A Miracle; You Can Live As If Everything Is A Miracle.

The Most Valuable Thing A Teacher Can Impart To Children Is Not Knowledge And Understanding Per Se But A Longing For Knowledge And Understanding, And An Appreciation For Intellectual Values, Whether They Be Artistic, Scientific, Or Moral. It Is The Supreme Art Of The Teacher To Awaken Joy In Creative Expression And Knowledge. Most Teachers Waste Their Time By Asking Questions That Are Intended To Discover What A Pupil Does Not Know, Whereas The True Art Of Questioning Is To Discover What The Pupil Does Know Or Is Capable Of Knowing.

To A Student: Dear Miss - I Have Read About Sixteen Pages Of Your Manuscript . . . I Suffered Exactly The Same Treatment At The Hands Of My Teachers Who Disliked Me For My Independence And Passed Over Me When They Wanted Assistants. . . . Keep Your Manuscript For Your Sons And Daughters, In Order That They May Derive Consolation From It And Not Give A Damn For What Their Teachers Tell Them Or Think Of Them. . . . There Is Too Much Education Altogether.

My Pacifism Is An Instinctive Feeling, A Feeling That Possesses Me Because The Murder Of Men Is Disgusting. My Attitude Is Not Derived From Any Intellectual Theory But Is Based On My Deepest Antipathy To Every Kind Of Cruelty And Hatred.

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If My Theory Of Relativity Is Proven Successful, Germany Will Claim Me As A German And France Will Declare Me A Citizen Of The World. Should My Theory Prove Untrue, France Will Say That I Am A German, And Germany Will Declare That I Am A Jew.

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People Like You And I, Though Mortal Of Course Like Everyone Else, Do Not Grow Old No Matter How Long We Live.

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In Order To Be An Immaculate Member Of A Flock Of Sheep, One Must Above All Be A Sheep Oneself.

A Person Starts To Live When He Can Live Outside Himself.

If A Is A Success In Life, Then A Equals X Plus Y Plus Z. Work Is X; Y Is Play; And Z Is Keeping Your Mouth Shut

The Intuitive Mind Is A Sacred Gift And The Rational Mind Is A Faithful Servant. We Have Created A Society That Honors The Servant And Has Forgotten The Gift.

Wisdom Is Not A Product Of Schooling But Of The Lifelong Attempt To Acquire It.

It Gives Me Great Pleasure Indeed To See The Stubbornness Of An Incorrigible Nonconformist Warmly Acclaimed.

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