From Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519), Italian Renaissance polymath whose areas of interest included invention, painting, sculpting, architecture, science, music, mathematics, engineering, literature, anatomy, geology, astronomy, botany, writing, history, and cartography. He has been variously called the father of palaeontology, ichnology, and architecture, and is widely considered one of the greatest painters of all time.
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.
