I read through these while checking out the TED Singapore site and wanted to repost them all here:
An idea that is
developed and put into action is more important
than an idea that exists only as an idea.
Hindu Prince Gautama Siddharta,
founder of Buddhism, c500 B.C.
The value of an idea
lies in the using of it.
Thomas Edison
If you can dream it,
you can do it.
Walt Disney.
Dream different dreams
while on the same bed.
Chinese proverb
Live out your imagination,
not your history
George S. Patton
Think left and think right
and think low and think high.
Oh, the things you can think up if only you try.
Dr. Seuss
We must become the change
we wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Ghandi
A journey of a thousand miles
must begin with a single step.
Chinese proverb
You must act as if
it is impossible to fail.
Ashanti proverb
The person who says it cannot be done
should not interrupt the person doing it.
Chinese proverb
I like nonsense,
it wakes up the brain cells.
Dr. Suess
New ideas pass through three periods:
1. It can't be done.
2. It probably can be done, but it's not worth doing.
3. I knew it was a good idea all along!
Arthur C. Clarke
First they ignore you,
then they laugh at you,
then they fight you,
then you win.
Mahatma Ghandi
I can't understand
why people are frightened of new ideas.
I'm frightened of the old ones.
John Cage
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it.
Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
Vision without action is a daydream.
Action without vision is a nightmare.
Japanese proverb
Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes.
Art is knowing which ones to keep.
Scott Adams
If at first, the idea is not absurd,
there is no hope for it.
Albert Einstein
The best way to have a good idea
is to have lots of ideas.
Frank Lloyd Wright
Every child is an artist.
The problem is how to remain an artist
once he grows up.
Pablo Picasso
Observe Everything.
Communicate Well.
Draw, Draw, Draw.
Frank Thomas, Disney Animator
Add legs to the snake
when you have finished drawing it.
Chinese proverb
All difficult things
have their origin in that which is easy,
and great things in that which is small.
Lao Tzu
Great souls have will,
feeble ones have wishes.
Chinese proverb
You see things, you say 'Why?'
But I dream things that never are, and say 'Why not?
George Bernard Shaw
Discovery consists of looking at the same thing
as everyone else and thinking something different.
Albert Szent Gyorgi
Every truth in this world
has an opposite somewhere.
U Nu
The reverse side
also has a reverse side.
Japanese proverb
If you're not failing every now and again,
it's a sign you're not doing anything very innovative.
Woody Allen
Everyone is a genius at least once a year.
The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.
Georg Christoph Lichtenberg
Do something.
If it doesn't work, do something else.
No idea is too crazy.
Jim Hightower
Ideas are like rabbits.
You get a couple and learn how to handle them,
and pretty soon you have a dozen.
John Steinbeck
Lack of money is no obstacle.
Lack of an idea is an obstacle.
Ken Hakuta
A person with a new idea is a crank
until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain
Life is so short,
we must move very slowly.
Thai saying
There is more to life
than increasing its speed.
Mahatma Ghandi
There is a better way,
find it.
Thomas Edison
Dig a well
before you are thirsty.
Chinese proverb
It is the mark of an educated mind
to be able to entertain a thought
without accepting it.
Aristotle
An inventor is simply a fellow
who doesn't take his education too seriously.
Charles Kettering
The best way to predict the future
is to invent it.
Alan Kay
Imagination is more important
than knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Imagination is the beginning of creation:
You imagine what you desire,
you will what you imagine
and at last, you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
You cannot depend on your eyes
when your imagination is out of focus.
Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Don't confuse the art of the possible
with the art of the profitable.
David Tansley
If you don't risk anything,
you risk even more.
Erica Jong
The more you know,
the less you understand.
Lao-Tzu
You may be disappointed if you fail,
but doomed if you do not try.
Beverly Stills
The most successful people are those
who are good at Plan B.
James Yorke
Great ideas often receive
violent opposition from mediocre minds.
Albert Einstein
A bamboo that bends is stronger
than the oak that resists.
Japanese proverb
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.
George Bernard Shaw
When eating fruit,
think of the person who planted the tree
Vietnamese proverb
Nothing is more dangerous than an idea,
when it is the only idea we have.
Henri Fourier
Ask youself constantly.
'What is the right thing to do?'
Confucius
A great person is one
who has not lost the heart of a child.
Lao Tzu
There is nothing more powerful
than an idea whose time has come.
Victor Hugo
Change your thoughts
and you change your world.
Norman Pool
All that we are
is the result of what we have thought.
Buddha
The beginning of wisdom
is to call things by their right names.
Chinese proverb
I dreamt of a thousand new paths.
I woke and walked my old one.
Chinese proverb
There are many paths to enlightenment.
Be sure to take the one with a heart.
Lao Tzu
They always say time changes things,
But you actually have to change them yourself.
Andy Warhol
No wind, no waves.
Chinese proverb
Do not wait for leaders.
Do it alone, person to person.
Mother Teresa
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