“If we want to be more like Leonardo, we have to be fearless about changing our minds based on new information.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
I think that genius comes not just from having great mental processing power. It comes from being able to, as Steve Jobs'… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The value of a college education is not the learning of many facts but the training of the mind to think,” he… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“men who desire nothing but material riches and are absolutely devoid of the desire for wisdom, which is the sustenance and truly… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“He retained the ability to hold two thoughts in his mind simultaneously, to be puzzled when they conflicted, and to marvel when… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“My mind, having been much more improved by reading than Keimer’s, I suppose it was for that reason my conversation seemed more… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Most people have a regulator between their mind and mouth that modulates their brutish sentiments and spikiest impulses. Not Jobs. He made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Your thoughts construct patterns like scaffolding in your mind. You are really etching chemical patterns. In most cases, people get stuck in… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The good painter has to paint two principal things, man and the intention of his mind,” he wrote. “The first is easy… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“he never finished any of the works he began because, so sublime was his idea of art, he saw faults even in the things… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
He had the attitude that he could do anything, and therefore so can you. He put his life in my hands. So that made… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
But the point is to get a whole new generation of people and people in general more re-engaged in news, and this has happened… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Jobs's intensity was also evident in his ability to focus. He would set priorities, aim his laser attention on them, and filter out distractions.… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“You have to remain critically vigilant.” Question every premise, challenge conventional wisdom, and never accept the truth of something merely because everyone else views… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“in 1996, bought NeXT, bringing Jobs back. BILL ATKINSON. Early Apple employee, developed graphics for the Macintosh. CHRISANN BRENNAN. Jobs’s girlfriend at Homestead High,… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“The last time there was this much excitement about a tablet, it had some commandments written on it.” — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“If you want to live your life in a creative way, as an artist, you have to not look back too much. You have… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
“There was a key lesson for innovation: Understand which industries are symbiotic so that you can capitalize on how they will spur each other… — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
