You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
The coffeehouse is good for genius, and the Viennese coffeehouse is a classic case. Freud had his favorite coffee shop, and so… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
Don't forget that Mozart worked on commission. He almost always would write something if he knew exactly who was paying for it… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I would love to think there is a direct relationship between coffee and genius, but they've done studies, and if anything, caffeine… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I've always been a big believer in the power of place. I believe that where we are affects who we are when… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
When you drink coffee, you become very focused, and in fact, the key to creative genius is to be defocused. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
I'm interested in genius the way a hungry man is interested in Philadelphia cheesesteaks. I want something. I want a piece of… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
We can't love a place or a person if we always have one foot out the door. — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Money sometimes buys happiness. You have to break it down, though. Money is a means to an end. The problem is when you think… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“My way of thinking is completely different,” he says. “I have no such mountains to scale; basically, I find that living itself is a… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Social scientists estimate that about 70 percent of our happiness stems from our relationships, both quantity and quality, with friends, family, coworkers, and neighbors.… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“It is not the skills we actually have that determine how we feel but the ones we think we have" ... we experience flow,… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
You look around the world at geniuses, and they don't appear randomly, they appear in genius clusters. Athens in 50 BC, Florence 1500, Silicon… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
What is the ideal audio atmosphere for creativity and it turns out it is not complete silence, and it is not a very loud… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“Bhutan is the land of la. The monosyllabic word serves as all-purpose affirmation, honorific, and verbal tic. Mostly, it is a softener, appended to… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
“He tells me of one American woman, forty-five years old, who was able to conceive only after being blessed by the Holy Dildo. That’s… — Eric Weiner Copy Share Image
