Leonardo Da Vinci

He is awesome - definitely the person I would most want to meet in the history of mankind, and yes more than jesus! I have his vitruvian man tattooed on my back, it is oh so wonderful!

"Iron rusts from disuse; water loses its purity from stagnation... even so does inaction sap the vigour of the mind. "

"It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.'

"Life is pretty simple: You do some stuff. Most fails. Some works. You do more of what works. If it works big, others quickly copy it. Then you do something else. The trick is the doing something else."

"Nothing strengthens authority so much as silence."

"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. "

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue." (This is definitely entertaining)

"The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions."

"There are three classes of people: those who see, those who see when they are shown, those who do not see. "

"While I thought that I was learning how to live, I have been learning how to die. "

"Why does the eye see a thing more clearly in dreams than the imagination when awake?"