Music is the art of thinking with sounds. -Jules Combarie
No one travels so high as he who knows not where he is going. -Oliver Cromwell
The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists. -Charles Dickens
Write as if you are dying -Annie Dillard
Genius is one percent inspiration, and ninety-nine percent perspiration. -Thomas Edison
The world we have made as a result of the level of thinking we have done thus far creates problems we cannot solve at the same level of thinking at which we created them. -Albert Einstein
Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds. -Albert Einstein
1. Out of clutter, find simplicity 2. From discord, find harmony 3. In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity ,(Three rules of work) -Albert Einstein
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler. -Albert Einstein
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -Ralph Waldo Emerson
Whether you believe you can, or whether you believe you can't, you're absolutely right. -Henry Ford
The more you think, the more time you have. -Henry Ford
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development. Julius Sextus Frontinus Source: Highly regarded engineer in Rome, 1st century A.D. >
Persistance is the hard work that you do after you are tired of doing the hard work you already did -Newt Gingrich
What you can do,or dream you can, begin it; boldness has genius, power and magic in it. -Goethe
To live is to have problems and to solve problems is to grow intellectually -J. P. Guilford
It is good to have an end to journey toward; but it is the journey that matters, in the end -Ursula K. Le Guin
"Silence is Foo." -Woody Woodpecker
"Random quotes can be most effecatious." -Anon
"To thine own self be true." -William Shakespaere
"...we are free at last!" -Martin Luther King
"The truth shall set you free.."
"I have not lost my mind - it's backed up on disk somewhere." -Anon
"Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history." -George Bernard Shaw
"Communism doesn't work because people like to own stuff." -Frank Zappa
"In the fight between you and the world, back the world." -Frank Zappa
"A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure." -Theodore Adorno
"To ask the hard question is simple. -W. H. Auden
"I'm not young enough to know everything." -J. M. Barrie
"Do not seek to follow in the footsteps of the men of old; seek what they sought." -Bash
"An idea can turn to dust or magic, depending on the talent that rubs against it." -Anon
"If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite." -William Blake
"I must create a system or be enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; My business is to create." -William Blake
"Life is:'trying things to see if they work'" -Ray Bradbury
A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. -Frank Capra
Whenever man comes up with a better mousetrap, nature immediately comes up with a better mouse. -James Carswell
One sees great things from the valley, only small things from the peak. -G. K. Chesterton
When the way comes to an end, then change - having changed, you pass through. -I Ching
No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time steady eye. -Winston Churchill
You lose it if you talk about it. -Ernest Hemingway
One cannot step twice into the same river. -Heraclitus
What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -Dean William R. Inge
In the dim background of mind we know what we ought to be doing but somehow we cannot start. -William James
Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -William James
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best. -Steve Jobs
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -Nikos Kazantzakis
The map is not the territory -Alfred Korzbyski
An essential aspect of creativity is not being afraid to fail. -Dr. Edwin Land
I used to think anyone doing anything weird was weird. Now I know that it is the people that call others weird that are weird. -Paul McCartney
The obvious is always least understood -Prince Metternich
To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid -Yaqui Mystic
If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -Isaac Newton
The only joy in the world is to begin. -Cesare Pavese
Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. -Pablo Picasso
I do not seek. I find. -Pablo Picasso
Teachers open the door, but you must enter by yourself. -Chinese Proverb
Inspiration could be called inhaling the memory of an act never experienced. -Ned Rorem
Be master of mind rather than mastered by mind. -Zen saying
