Dant\u00e8s: \u201cI was reflecting, in the first place\u2026upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained;\u2014if you thus surpass all mankind while but a prisoner, what would you not have accomplished free?\u201d<\/p>\n
Faria: \u201cPossibly nothing at all;\u2014the overflow of my brain would probably, in a state of freedom, have evaporated in a thousand follies; it needs trouble and difficulty and danger to hollow out various mysterious and hidden mines of human intelligence.\u00a0 Pressure is required, you know, to ignite powder: captivity has collected into one single focus all the floating faculties of my mind; they have come into close contact in the narrow space in which they have been wedged, and you are well aware that from the collision of clouds electricity is produced\u2014from electricity comes the lightning, from whose flash we have light amid our greatest darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n
(The Count of Monte Cristo<\/a>, pages 183-184)<\/p>\n Wow!\u00a0 This passage really grabbed my attention.\u00a0 As a homeschooling, entrepreneurial mom, I have so many irons in the fire that it is really easy to dissipate my efforts in a million directions.\u00a0 I may have to post this quote above my computer as a reminder of the power of focus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dant\u00e8s: \u201cI was reflecting, in the first place\u2026upon the enormous degree of intelligence and ability you must have employed to reach the high perfection to which you have attained;\u2014if you thus surpass all mankind while but a prisoner, what would you not have accomplished free?\u201d Faria: \u201cPossibly nothing at all;\u2014the overflow of my brain would … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/eclectic-bibliophile.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}