"The essence of genius is taking an idea which some people think is ludicrous and seeing the possibilities." Chuck Martin
"Man is only half himself, the other half is his expression." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"For five seconds you're a genius, the rest of your life a bum. Write it down." Lawrence Miller
"The harder it is to write or record your ideas, the more easily the ideas will flow." Jim Samuel
"If you can't explain what you're doing to a four-year-old, you don't know what you're doing." Peter Lloyd
"Loyalty to petrified opinion never yet broke a chain or freed a human soul." Mark Twain
"Where the light is brightest the shadows are deepest." Wolfgang Goethe
"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederation against him." Jonathan Swift
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world, but the unreasonable man tries to adapt the world to him - therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man." Samuel Butler
"Well, I never went to college and learned I couldn't." Duke Ellington, when asked how he could write so many different kinds of music
"Freedom is the chief ingredient in confidence" R.L. Stevenson
"There is no right or wrong in the game: only creative choice." Steve Mellow
"Not failure, but low aim, is crime." James Russell Lowell
"In every work of genius we recognize our own rejected thoughts." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"It has been said that the highest praise of God consists in the denial of Him by the atheist, who finds creation so perfect that he can dispense with a creator." Marcel Proust
"If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves." Carl Gustav Jung
"What ever you can do, or dream you can, begin it, Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it." Goethe
"If one advances in the direction of his dreams, one will meet with success unexpected in common hours." Henry David Thoreau
"If it ain't broke, we've still got a chance to fix it." Mike Hammer
"Leap before you look." Peter Lloyd
"I believe that if we respond with our best creative energies, we can unleash a new Renaissance of discovery and learning." John Scully
"Under Szell they had to be the best. With me, they want to be the best." Christoph von Dohnanyi
"Truth emerges from the clash of adverse ideas." John Stuart Mill
"Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again." Goethe
"How can I tell what I think until I see what I say?" E. M. Forester
"Nothing is more real than nothing." Sam Beckett
"An enchanted loom where millions of flashing shuttles weave a dissolving pattern, always a meaningful pattern though never an abiding one." Sir Charles Sherrington, describing the brain
"Science is a cemetery of dead ideas, even though life may issue from them." Miguel de Unamuno
"The best ideas are common property." Lucius Annaeus Seneca
"Make it a practice to keep on the lookout for novel and interesting ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you are working on." Thomas Edison
"I wonder why I wonder why. I wonder why I wonder I wonder. I wonder why I wonder _why_ I wonder why I wonder!" Richard Feynman
"Don't ask yourself what the world needs. Ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive." Howard Thurmon
"In oneself lies the whole world and if you know how to look and learn, then the door is there and the key is in your hand." J. Krishnamurti
"To live, to err, to fall, to triumph, to create life out of life." James Joyce
"The artist's whole business is to make something out of nothing." Paul Valery
"The large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way." Donald Hebb
"Questions are the creative acts of intelligence." Frank Kingdomy
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it." Alan Kay
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be kindled." Plutarch
"Genius is the fire that lights itself." Anonymous
"Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a mighty bloodless substitute for life." R.L. Stevenson
"Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week." George Bernard Shaw
"Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses." George Washington Carver
"Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." Gen. George S. Patton
"Between two evils, I always choose the one I have never tried before." Mae West
"Life is short; live it up." Nikita Krushchev
"An idea that is not dangerous is unworthy of being called an idea at all." Elbert Hubbard
"Where we all think alike, no one thinks very much." Walter Lippman
"The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new law." Machiavelli, 1513
"To make a great dream come true, you must first have a great dream." Dr. Hans Selye
"Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original shape." Oliver Wendell Holmes
"It is by intuition that we discover and by logic that we prove." Henri Poincare, Mathematician
"Talent ... must be stimulated. The country will not manage without it." Mikhail Gorbachev
"Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else and thinking something different." Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
"Men and women want to do a good job, a creative job, and ... if they are provided with the proper environment, they will do so." William R. Hewlett
"All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgments of probabilities, and not on certainties." Charles Eliot
"He's no failure. He's not dead yet." William Lloyd George
"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes." Claude Bernard
"The courage to imagine the otherwise is our greatest resource, adding color and suspense to all our life." Daniel J. Boorstin
"There is an uneasiness about thinking, about intellectual endeavor... that permeates the society, and that is clearly extremely dangerous." Carl Sagan
"I quote others only to better express my own self." Montaigne
"Everything is what it is because it got that way." D'Arcy Thompson
"Failure is fertilizer for success." Annonymous
"There are only two sources of human vice: idleness and superstition, and only two virtues: activity and intelligence." Prince Nicholas Andreevich (War and Peace, Tolstoy)