Your Daily Insight as told by F. Scott Fitzgerald

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.

Your Daily Insight as told by Andre Malraux

Often the difference between a successful person and a failure is not one has better abilities or ideas, but the courage that one has to bet on one's ideas, to take a calculated risk--and to act.

Your Daily Insight as told by Tupac Shakur

I'm a natural-born leader. I know how to bow down to authority if it's authority that I respect.

Your Daily Insight as told by Natalie Clifford Barney

Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble-making individual.

Your Daily Insight as told by Howard Aiken

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram them down people's throats.

Your Daily Insight as told by Eleanor Roosevelt

Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people.

Your Daily Insight as told by Jay-Z

I would run into the corner store, the bodega, and just grab a paper bag or buy juice--anything just to get a paper bag. And I'd write the words on the paper bag and stuff these ideas in my pocket until I got back. Then I would transfer them into the notebook...

Your Daily Insight as told by Georgia O'Keefe

I've been absolutely terrified every moment of my life - and I've never let it keep me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.

Your Daily Insight as told by Ralph Ellison

The antidote to hubris, to overweening pride, is irony, that capacity to discover and systematize ideas. Or, as Emerson insisted, the development of consciousness, consciousness, consciousness.

Your Daily Insight as told by Flannery O'Connor

Everywhere I go, I'm asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a best seller that could have been prevented by a good teacher.