Albert Einstein - A Groper? Say it ain't So!

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That’s always the way when you discover something new; everybody thinks you’re crazy. – Evelyn E. Smith




Many things are not believed because their current explanation is not believed. – Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche



One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time. – Andrew Gide



The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why. – Albert Einstein



No man can produce great things who is not thorougly sincere in dealing with himself. – James Russell Lowell



A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. – Frank Capra



How do I work? I grope. – Albert Einstein

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Dread of Censure = Death of Genius

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Reading is a means of thinking with another person’s mind: it forces you to stretch your own. – Charles scribner, Jr.

Absence of occupation is not rest. A mind quite vacant is a mind distressed. – William Cowper

A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. - Frank Capra

The best defensive strategy is the courage to attack yourself. – Al Ries and Jack TroutTh

Do not forget little kindnesses and do not remember small faults. – Chinese proverbs

The dread of censure is the death of genius. – William G. Simms

The easiest person to decieve is one’s self. – Edward Bulwer-Lytten

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Darkly Comical Hollywood Quotes

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The director is the artist of the cinema.

Frank Capra (It’s a Wonderful Life)

Directors have the power to speak to hundreds of millions for two hours—and in the dark.

Movies made here have Americanized the world.

My measure of all things was simple: was it good for Frank Capra.

In short: “the audience is always right” is a safe bet.

There are no rules in film-making, only sins. And the cardinal sin is Dullness.

About Capra

I’d rather be Capra than God. If there is a Capra. – Garson Kanin

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