"...Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see...."

-Arthur Schopenhauer

Above: Cloud Gate at Millennium Park in Chicago Illinois 

It is a paradoxical but profoundly true and important principle of life that the most likely way to reach a goal is to be aiming not at that goal itself but at some more ambitious goal beyond it. 

- Arnold Toynbee