2. Think: Quotations
2.1. Creativity
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Yo-Yo Ma
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
Kurt Cobain
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson
Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
Bill O'Reilly
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
There is a fountain of youth: it is your mind, your talents, the creativity you bring to your life and the lives of people you love. When you learn to tap this source, you will truly have defeated age.
Sophia Loren
I think it's fair to say that personal computers have become the most empowering tool we've ever created. They're tools of communication, they're tools of creativity, and they can be shaped by their user.
Bill Gates
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.
Edward de Bono
Passion is one great force that unleashes creativity, because if you're passionate about something, then you're more willing to take risks.
Yo-Yo Ma
Educationists should build the capacities of the spirit of inquiry, creativity, entrepreneurial and moral leadership among students and become their role model.
A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.
Maya Angelou
I've never been a very prolific person, so when creativity flows, it flows. I find myself scribbling on little notepads and pieces of loose paper, which results in a very small portion of my writings to ever show up in true form.
Kurt Cobain
Creativity is the process of having original ideas that have value. It is a process; it's not random.
Ken Robinson
Sometimes you've got to let everything go - purge yourself. If you are unhappy with anything... whatever is bringing you down, get rid of it. Because you'll find that when you're free, your true creativity, your true self comes out.
Tina Turner
As a former high school teacher and a student in a class of 60 urchins at St. Brigid's grammar school, I know that education is all about discipline and motivation. Disadvantaged students need extra attention, a stable school environment, and enough teacher creativity to stimulate their imaginations. Those things are not expensive.
Bill O'Reilly
Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
Earl Nightingale
Creativity is the power to connect the seemingly unconnected.
William Plomer
You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
Ken Robinson
Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practised and nurtured.
Edward de Bono
For most people, creativity is a serious business. They forget the telling phrase 'the play of ideas' and think that they need to knuckle down and work more. Often, the reverse is true. They need to play.
Julia Cameron
2.2. Problem Solving
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
Roseanne Barr
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
Jamie Oliver
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
Thomas Heatherwick
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
Tom Peters
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
Tom Peters
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald Reagan
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen Covey
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
Facts and data, rather than opinion, are the two cornerstones of problem solving, and yet they are consistently withheld from the people by American media. We must have facts and data in order to recognize where there is a problem!
Roseanne Barr
I think there are definitely two types of student: the academic kids and the 50% who fail. It's very clear to see - it's fact. We're not doing enough for those who fail; they need a more physical, tactile approach, involving people skills, team-building, problem-solving, building things.
Jamie Oliver
I'm wary of the word 'inventing,' because in the British psyche the word 'inventor' is immediately linked with 'mad'. For me, inventing is problem-solving.
Thomas Heatherwick
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.
Tom Peters
'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.
Tom Peters
Business book writing for me is when some set of ideas gets stuck in my mind, I write a book about it. I haven't got a theory and I haven't got a framework.
Tom Peters
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
Albert Einstein
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
Robert H. Schuller
It's not that I'm so smart, it's just that I stay with problems longer.
Albert Einstein
Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.
Ronald Reagan
Governments will always play a huge part in solving big problems. They set public policy and are uniquely able to provide the resources to make sure solutions reach everyone who needs them. They also fund basic research, which is a crucial component of the innovation that improves life for everyone.
Bill Gates
Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems.
Rene Descartes
My mind rebels at stagnation. Give me problems, give me work, give me the most abstruse cryptogram, or the most intricate analysis, and I am in my own proper atmosphere. But I abhor the dull routine of existence. I crave for mental exaltation.
Arthur Conan Doyle
Employers and business leaders need people who can think for themselves - who can take initiative and be the solution to problems.
Stephen Covey
I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.
Nelson Mandela
Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them.
Henry Ford
2.3. ABC
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."--William James
"You mainly feel the way you think."--Albert Ellis
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you handle what happens to you."--Anonymous
"The unexamined life is not worth living."--Socrates
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."--Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."--Wayne Dyer
"Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things."--Walt Disney
"He who has a 'why' to live for can bear with almost any 'how'."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Most people believe they see the world as it is. However, we really see the world as we are."--Anonymous
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking as He did, this world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right IF I surrender to His will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him, forever in the next."--Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971
"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."--Henry Ford
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."--Aphorism
The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or the president. You realize that you control your own destiny.
Albert Ellis
We teach people that they upset themselves. We can't change the past, so we change how people are thinking, feeling and behaving today.
Albert Ellis
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.
Albert Ellis
You largely constructed your depression. It wasn't given to you. Therefore, you can deconstruct it.
Albert Ellis
"Man can alter his life by altering his thinking."--William James
"You mainly feel the way you think."--Albert Ellis
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."--Eleanor Roosevelt
"Life is 10% what happens to you and 90% how you handle what happens to you."--Anonymous
"The unexamined life is not worth living."--Socrates
"Keep your thoughts positive because your thoughts become your words. Keep your words positive because your words become your behaviors. Keep your behaviors positive because your behaviors become your habits. Keep your habits positive because your habits become your values. Keep your values positive because your values become your destiny."--Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Peace is the result of retraining your mind to process life as it is, rather than as you think it should be."--Wayne Dyer
"Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things."--Walt Disney
"He who has a 'why' to live for can bear with almost any 'how'."--Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
"Most people believe they see the world as it is. However, we really see the world as we are."--Anonymous
"God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference. Living one day at a time; accepting hardships as the pathway to peace; taking as He did, this world as it is, not as I would have it. Trusting that He will make all things right IF I surrender to His will; that I may be reasonably happy in this life and supremely happy with Him, forever in the next."--Karl Paul Reinhold Niebuhr, 1892-1971
"Think you can, think you can't; either way, you'll be right."--Henry Ford
"Beauty is in the eye of the beholder."--Aphorism
