Creativity/Experts/Work
A conference is just an
admission that you want somebody to join you in your troubles. - Will Rogers
A leading authority is
anyone who has guessed right more than once.
A good speech is like a
miniskirt: short enough to be interesting, but long enough to cover the
essentials.
A new idea is delicate.
It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke, or
worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. - Charles Brower
A paperless office is as
likely as a paperless bathroom.
A person should set his
goals as early as he can and devote all his energy and talent to getting there.
With enough effort, he may achieve it. Or he may find something that is even
more rewarding. But in the end, no matter what the outcome, he will know he has
been alive. - Walt Disney
A professional is
someone who can do his best work when he doesn't feel like it. - Alistair Cooke
An expert is someone
called in at the last minute to share the blame. - Sam Ewing in Mature
Living
Any simple idea will be
worded in the most complicated way.
Beware the lollipop of
mediocrity. Lick it once and you will suck forever.
Copying from one is
plagiarism. Copying from two is research.
Don't say you don't have
enough time. You have exactly the same number of hours per day that were given
to Helen Keller, Louis Pasteur, Michelangelo, Mother Teresa, Leonardo DaVinci,
Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein.
Don't worry about people
stealing an idea. If it's original, you will have to ram it down their throats.
– Howard Aiken
Efficiency is
intelligent laziness. - David Dunham
Ever notice that
"what the hell" is always the right decision? - Marilyn Monroe
Every day I get up and
look through the Forbes list of the richest people in America. If I'm not
there, I go to work. - Robert Orben
First Law of Bicycling:
No matter where you're going, it's uphill and against the wind.
Forget and forgive. This
is not difficult when properly understood. It means forget inconvenient duties,
then forgive yourself for forgetting. By rigid practice and stern
determination, it comes easy. - Mark Twain
Give me a one-handed
economist! All my economists say, 'On one hand...on the other...' - Harry
Truman
Hell, there are no rules
here -- we're trying to accomplish something. - Thomas Alva Edison
I am returning this otherwise
good typing paper to you because someone has printed gibberish all over it and
put your name at the top. - English Professor at Ohio University
I love having ten times
as much stuff to do as I can possibly find time to do. That way, I can pick the
one-tenth that I want to do most. But if I only have enough to just occupy all
my time, I'm stuck doing all of whatever stuff it happens to be. - Marilyn vos
Savant
If confusion is the
first step to knowledge, I must be a genius. - Larry Leissner
If you want creative
workers, give them enough time to play. - John Cleese
It is a capital mistake
to theorize before one has data.- Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
It's kind of fun to do
the impossible. - Walt Disney
Make it idiot proof and
someone will make a better idiot.
My father taught me to
work; he did not teach me to love it. I never did like to work, and I don't
deny it. I'd rather read, tell stories, crack jokes, talk, laugh - anything but
work. - Abraham Lincoln
My problems start when
the smarter bears and the dumber visitors intersect. - Steve Thompson, wildlife
biologist at Yosemite National Park
"Necessity is the
mother of invention" is a silly proverb. "Necessity is the mother of
futile dodges" is much nearer the truth. - Alfred North Whitehead
Never be afraid to try
something new. Remember, amateurs built the ark. Professionals built the Titanic.
Never tell people how to
do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their
ingenuity. - General George S. Patton, Jr.
New ideas are always
criticized - not because an idea lacks merit, but because it might turn out to
be workable, which would threaten the reputations of many people whose opinions
conflict with it. Some people may even lose their jobs. - physicist, requested
anonymity
One of the symptoms of
an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one's work is terribly
important.- Bertrand Russell
Originality is the fine
art of remembering what you hear but forgetting where you heard it. - Laurence
J. Peter
People in their right
mind never take pride in their talents. - Miss Maudie Atkinson in To Kill a
Mockingbird
Rome did not create a
great empire by having meetings, they did it by killing all those who opposed
them.
Self-plagiarism is
style. - Alfred Hitchcock
So, rather than appear
foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now. - William of Baskerville, The
Name of the Rose
Sometimes I worry about
being a success in a mediocre world. - Lily Tomlin
Somewhere, something incredible
is waiting to be known. - Carl Sagan
Success is 10%
inspiration, 90% last-minute changes. - advertisement on a billboard
The discovery of truth
is prevented more effectively not by the false appearance of things present and
which mislead into error, not directly by weakness of the reasoning powers, but
by preconceived opinion, by prejudice. - Schopenhauer
The fastest way to
succeed is to look as if you're playing by somebody else's rules, while quietly
playing by your own. – Michael Konda
The Feynman Problem
Solving Algorithm: 1) Write down the problem. 2) Think very hard. 3) Write down
the solution.
The first draft of
anything is shit. - Ernest Hemingway
The first rule of
intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts. - Aldo Leopold
The last time somebody
said, 'I find I can write much better with a word processor.', I replied, 'They
used to say the same thing about drugs.' – Roy Blount, Jr.
The motivic papers often
hopelessly increase their volume while you write them; they have a tendency to
lead the reader astray from the central ideas and simple computations to the
burdock thicket of generalities. We apologize as this seems to have happened
with this paper. - Sasha Beilinson
The secret of teaching
is to appear to have known all your life what you just learned this morning.
The secret to creativity
is knowing how to hide your sources. - Albert Einstein
There cannot be a crisis
next week. My schedule is already full. - Henry Kissinger
To invent, you need a
good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Alva Edison
Today's mighty oak is
yesterday's little nut that held its ground.
Try to relax and enjoy
the crisis. - Ashleigh Brilliant
We are torn between the
craving to know and the despair of having known. - F. Sagan
Whenever you are asked
if you can do a job, tell 'em, "Certainly, I can!" Then get busy and
find out how to do it. - Theodore Roosevelt
You cannot teach a man
anything, you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo
You may only have two of
the three choices: (1) Enjoy your job. (2)Work within the law. (3)Make lots of
money.