The region belonging to the pure intellect is straitened: the imagination labours
to extend its territories, to give it room. She sweeps across the boarders, searching out new lands into which she may guide
her plodding brother. The imagination is the light which redeems from the darkness for the eyes of the understanding. Novalis
says, 'The imagination is the stuff of the intellect' -affords, that is, the material upon which the intellect works.
-George MacDonald
Novalis said, “The imagination is the stuff of the intellect”, meaning
that it is not the intellect which is the highest tool by which things are discovered. It is the imagination that searches
out and the intellect that investigates. For example, the imagination could be thought of as the navigator and the intellect
as its hireling. What the imagination discovers the intellect investigates; making the unknown discovery of the imagination
known. The very heart of a scientific inventor is his imagination.
-Nick Dalbey
The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer.
-Edward R. Murrow
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else
in the universe.
-John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
The Ego is only conscious of its activity, in so far as that activity is limited
or opposed. There thus lie in the consciousness of the Ego the three elements, - feeling of impulse or striving, intuition
of activity, and the representation of the obstacle to activity, a representation which is the work of the productive imagination.
-Robert Adamson, Fichte
The most valuable gift one can receive is thoughtful criticism
-Eric Beinhocker
As to methods there may be a million and then some, but principles are few. The
man who grasps principles can successfully select his own methods. The man who tries methods, ignoring principles, is sure
to have trouble.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
Scientific data are not taken for museum purposes; they are taken as a basis for
doing something. If nothing is to be done with the data, then there is no use in collecting any. The ultimate purpose of taking
data is to provide a basis for action or a recommendation for action. The step intermediate between the collection of data
and the action is prediction.
-William Edwards Deming
We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.
-Samuel Johnson
Attention is hence the ability to attract engagement, merely the first step in
the
process.
-Vilma Luoma-aho and David Nordfors, Attention
and Reputation in the
Innovation Economy
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.
-Martin Luther King, Jr.
While a self-organizing system's openness to new forms and new environments might
seem to make it too fluid, spineless, and hard to define, this is not the case. Though flexible, a self-organizing structure
is no mere passive reactor to external fluctuations. As it matures and stabilizes, it becomes more efficient in the use of
its resources and better able to exist within its environment. It establishes a basic structure that supports the development
of the system. This structure then facilitates an insulation from the environment that protects the system from constant,
reactive changes.
-Margaret Wheatley, Leadership and the New Science
I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in
men’s minds without their being aware of the fact.
-Claude Levi-Strauss
The best way to confront a network is to create a counternetwork, a non-hierarchical
organization capable of responding quickly to actionable intelligence.
-Colonel Gregory Wilson
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not
with the wind.
-John Neal
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
-Erich Fromm
Science is what you know, philosophy is what you don't know.
-Bertrand Russell
Nothing astonishes men so much as common sense and plain dealing.
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to live a happy life, tie it to a goal, not to people or things.
-Albert Einstein
It isn't what you have, or who you are, or where you are, or what you are doing that makes you happy or unhappy. It is
what you think about.
-Dale Carnegie
Words are, of course, the most powerful drug used by mankind.
-Rudyard Kipling
The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances.
-Aristotle
The one common experience of all humanity is the challenge of problems.
-R. Buckminster Fuller
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.
-Ayn Rand
Mediocre men often have the most acquired knowledge.
-Claude Bernard
I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
-Jonathan Swift
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
-John Quincy Adams
If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader.
-John Quincy Adams
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts. But if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall
end in certainties.
-Francis Bacon
We never understand a thing so well, and make it our own, as when we have discovered it for ourselves.
-Rene Descartes
To think creatively, we must be able to look afresh at what we normally take for granted.
-George Kneller
Trying to get people to reason in a way that is not natural for them is like trying to teach a pig to sing. You don't
accomplish anything and you annoy the pig.
-E. Jeffrey Conklin and William Weil
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become
enslaved by it.
-Robert A. Heinlein
You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
-Friedrich Nietzsche
Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it.
-Andre Gide
Repetition does not transform a lie into a truth.
-Franklin Roosevelt
Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how slow.
-Plato
Originality does not consist in saying what no one has has ever said before, but in saying exactly what you think yourself.
-James Stephen
Why not go out on a limb? Isn't that where the fruit is?
-Frank Scully
If the only tool you have is a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.
-Abraham Maslow
My future starts when I wake up every morning. Every day I find something creative to do with my life.
-Miles Davis
The person who makes a success of living is the one who sees his goal steadily and aims for it unswervingly.
-Cecil B. DeMille
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
-William James
We probably wouldn't worry about what other people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
-Olin Miller
The virtue of all achievement is victory over oneself. Those who know this victory can never know defeat.
-A.J. Cronin
What you want to do, you do. The rest is just talk.
-John Cleek
Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents that in times of prosperity would have lain dormant.
-Horace
it is not enough to be busy; so are the ants. The question is, What are we busy about?
-Henry David Thoreau
My experience is what I agree to attend to.
-William James
No sensible decision can be made any longer without taking into account not only the world as it is, but the world as
it will be.
-Isaac Asimov
A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.
-Henry David Thoreau
Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.
-Andre Gide
Sometimes the best way to convince someone he is wrong is to let him have his way.
-Hugh Roe O'Donnell
Youth is not a time of life - it is a state of mind. It is not a matter of red cheeks, red lips and supple knees. It
is a temper of the will; a quality of the imagination; a vigor of the emotions; it is a freshness of the deep springs of life.
Youth means a tempermental predominance of courage over timidity, of the appetite for adventure over a life of ease. This
often exists in a man of fifty, more than in a boy of twenty. Nobody grows old by merely living a number of years; people
grow old by deserting their ideals.
-Samuel Ullman
During the first period of a man's life the greatest danger is not to take the risk.
-Soren Kierkegaard
Truth always originates in a minority of one, and every custom begins as a broken precedent.
-William Durant
There is only one success - to be able to spend your life in your own way, and not to give others absurd maddening claims
upon it.
-Christopher Morley
To find yourself, think for yourself.
-Socrates
Life is so constructed, that the event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.
-Charlotte Bronte
The best-educated human being is the one who understands most about the life in which he is placed.
-Helen Keller
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
-Albert Einstein
The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.
-Sir William Osler
He who refuses to embrace a unique opportunity loses the prize as surely as if he had tried and failed.
-William James
In nature, there are neither rewards nor punishments; there are consequences.
-Robert Greene Ingersoll
It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.
-William G. McAdoo
Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.
-Remy de Gourmont
A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled.
-Barnett Cocks
An invasion of armies can be resisted, but not the invasion of ideas.
-Victor Hugo
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people so
full of doubts.
-Bertrand Russell
Clear your mind of cant.
-Dr. Samuel Johnson
Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-Bertrand Russell
