Eric Weiner Quotes

Genius is not only a what or a who, it is a where. It is grounded in a place every single time.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

Where we are is vital to who we are.

To write about a place, you have to live there.

I've always felt writing a song was a bit like going on location. That's true in an almost literal sense. Where you are seeps in somehow.

Where you are defines what you're interested in.

I've written songs everywhere, and I think the place does matter.

To me, the contemporary novel suffers from a lack of sense of place - or spirit of place, if you will. It's not important to most writers, I must assume, or they try to research a given background on sabbatical. Not for me. I write about places I've lived long before I ever set pen to paper.

If you're sitting in a place like Martha's Vineyard, I don't think you're going to write a song about a ski resort.

I am drawn to the ways in which we are shaped by people and by place.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

Try to live in a place you like.

Where you're from only matters in relation to where you are.

An individual is not distinct from his place. He is his place.

I have to photograph where I am.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave.

Mozart makes you believe in God because it cannot be by chance that such a phenomenon arrives into this world and leaves such an unbounded number of unparalleled masterpieces.

Where they come from matters. They're products of particular places and environments.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Waiting to be happy limits our brain's potential for success, whereas cultivating positive brains makes us more motivated, efficient, resilient, creative, and productive, which drives performance upward.

Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.

Either I'm a genius or I'm mad, which is it? "No," I said, "I can't be mad because nobody's put me away; therefore I'm a genius." Genius is a form of madness and we're all that way. But I used to be coy about it, like me guitar playing. But if there's such a thing as genius - I am one. And if there isn't, I don't care.

I believe a joyful life is made up of joyful moments, gracefully strung together by trust, gratitude, inspiration, and faith.

If self is a location, so is love.