If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement.
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One is always considered mad, when one discovers something that others cannot grasp.
I'm very much afraid of being mad - that's my one fear.
I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety.
When we can lay down our fear and anger and choose responses other than aggression, we create the conditions for bringing out the best in us humans.
Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics.
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.
Fear drives you a lot harder than success does.
Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.
In order to achieve anything you must be brave enough to fail.
It's better to get smart than to get mad. I try not to get so insulted that I will not take advantage of an opportunity to persuade people to change their minds.
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