Quote of the Day
“Ideas won’t keep. Something must be done about them.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
“We don’t know a millionth of one percent about anything.”
– Thomas Edison
“Do not fear mistakes. There are none.” – Miles Davis
“Obstacles are those frightful things you see when you take your eyes off the goal.” – Hannah More
“Conclusions arrived at through reasoning have very little or no influence in altering the course of our lives.”– Carlos Casteneda
“To accomplish great things we must dream as well as act.” –Anatole France
“It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.” –Charles Peguy
“Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not yet understood.” – Henry Miller
“You can’t solve a problem on the same level that it was created. You have to rise above it to the next level.”– Albert Einstein
“If you have always done it that way, it is probably wrong.” – Charles Kettering
“A definition of insanity: doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” – Rita Mae Brown
“Everything should be as simple as it is, but no simpler.” – Albert Einstein
“Genius is infinite painstaking.” – Michelangelo
“Nothing will change the fact that I cannot produce the least thing without absolute solitude.”– Goethe
“Swipe from the best, then adapt.” – Tom Peters
“Give me the young man who has brains enough to make a fool of himself.”
– Robert Louis Stevenson
“You can expect no influence if you are not susceptible to influence.”
– Carl Jung
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.” – Goethe
“Sit, walk, or run, but don’t wobble.” – Zen proverb
“The greater the contrast, the greater the potential. Great energy only comes from a correspondingly great tension of opposites.”– Carl Jung
“We don’t know who discovered water, but we’re certain it wasn’t a fish.”
– John Culkin
“I will act as if what I do will make a difference.” – William James
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not start. – Charles Baudelaire
“What is now proved was once only imagined.” – William Blake
“Remember, a dead fish can float down a stream, but it takes a live one to swim upstream.” – W.C. Fields
“99 percent of success is built on failure.” – Charles Kettering
“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” – Albert Einstein
“I start where the last man left off.” – Thomas Edison
“Never confuse motion with action.” – Ernest Hemingway
“The greatest invention in the world is the mind of a child.”– Thomas Edison
“No matter how well you perform, there’s always somebody of intelligent opinion who thinks it’s lousy.” – Sir Laurence Olivier
“You must do the thing you think you cannot do.” – Eleanor Roosevelt
“I’ll play it first and tell you what it is later.” – Miles Davis
“The way to get good ideas is to get lots of ideas and throw the bad ones away.”– Linus Pauling
“Discovery is seeing what everybody else has seen, and thinking what nobody else has thought”. – Albert Szent-Gyorgi
“A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock pile when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.”– Antoine Saint-Exupery
“Without a deadline, baby, I wouldn’t do nothing.” – Duke Ellington
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind there are few.” – Shunryu Suzuki
“Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.” – General George Patton
“The man with a new idea is a crank—until the idea succeeds.” – Mark Twain
“A problem well stated is a problem half solved.” – Charles Kettering
“The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.” – Thomas Edison
“Don’t be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can’t cross a chasm in two small jumps.” – David Lloyd George
“The silly question is the first intimation of some totally new development.”
– Alfred North Whitehead
“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”– Jonas Salk
“Money never starts an idea; it is the idea that starts the money.”
– William J. Cameron
“Systems die; instincts remain.” – Oliver Wendell Holmes
“You will never find the time for anything. If you want time, you must make it.” – Charles Burton
“Whenever anything is being accomplished, it is being done, I have learned, by a monomaniac with a mission.” – Peter Drucker
“One of the illusions of life is that the present hour is not the critical, decisive one.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The lightning spark of thought generated in the solitary mind awakens its likeness in another mind.”– Thomas Carlyle
“The way to succeed is to double your failure rate.”
– Thomas Watson
“A lot of people are afraid of heights. Not me, I'm afraid of widths.”
–Steven Wright
“Innovation opportunities do not come with the tempest but with the rustling of the breeze.” – Peter Drucker
“You can only be as good as you dare to be bad.” – John Barrymore
“No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered.” – Winston Churchill
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own being, you will have betrayed yourself.”– Rollo May
“Nothing is more dangerous than an idea when it is the only one you have.”
– Emile Chartier
“Almost all really new ideas have a certain aspect of foolishness when they are just produced.” – A.N. Whitehead
“The gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge.” – Albert Einstein
“Every act of creation is, first of all, an act of destruction.” – Pablo Picasso
“Genius is infinite painstaking.” – Michelangelo
“Imagination is more important than knowledge.”
– Albert Einstein
“Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.”
– William James
“Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.”
– Jonathan Swift
“If you can dream it, you can do it.”
– Walt Disney
“The best way to predict the future is to create it.”
–Alan Kay
“If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it.”
– Gordon MacKenzie
“Taking a new step, uttering a new word, is what people fear most.”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky
“If you lose the power to laugh, you lose the power to think.”
– Clarence Darrow
“Security is mostly a superstition. Life is either a daring adventure or nothing.”
– Helen Keller
“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”
– Jonas Salk
“Now that we have met with paradox we have some hope of making progress.”
– Niels Bohr
“Microsoft is never more than two years away from failure.”
– Bill Gates
“We’ve reached the end of incrementalism. Only those companies that are capable of creating industry revolutions will prosper in the new economy.”
– Gary Hamel
“I've been doing a lot of abstract painting lately, extremely abstract. No
brush, no paint, no canvas, I just think about it.”
– Steven Wright
“I want to put a ding in the universe.”
– Steve Jobs
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