It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Some people, however long their experience or strong their intellect, are temperamentally incapable of reaching firm decisions.
Those who occupy their minds with small matters, generally become incapable of greatness.
Deficiencies in individuals, as in States, have their value and import. Indeed, that sublime impulse of perfectibility, always vivacious, always working under various forms and with one underlying purpose, would be futile without them, and fatuous.
Some people displease with merit, and others' very faults and defects are pleasing.
The intellectually sophisticated person is indifferent to all genuine individuality, because relationships and reactions result from it which cannot be exhausted with logical operations.
Egotism - usually just a case of mistaken nonentity.
There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.
People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.