Quotes
Quotable Quotes
[Mar 27, 2006]
- If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
- There are many people who have no desire to do anything differently. We need to have people who are technically expert: people who play wonderful third fiddle, if you will, or people who carry out what we call normal experiments in science. But some people want to push beyond that. And that’s personality kind of thing. It’s nothing to do with how smart they are. It’s whether they are the kinds of people who like to confront obstacles. Only people who’ve got that kind of irritation…irritability… where they’re not satisfied just to do what other people want to do, but who really want to put themselves on the line and take a risk and face the void of going beyond where other people have gone who have any change of being creative.
- A consistent thinker is thoughtless person because he conforms to a pattern he repeats phrases and thinks in a groove.
- We are never discontented with others than when we are discontented with ourselves.
- You are where you are today because you stand on somebody’s shoulders. And wherever you are heading, you cannot get there by yourself. If you stand on the shoulders of others, you have a reciprocal responsibility to live your life so that others may stand on your shoulders. It’s the quid pro quo of life. We exist temporarily through what we take, but we live forever through what we give”