Posted by Ned Colville on November 20, 2009
1. “Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.” (Hermann Hesse)
2. “The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.” (Ralph Waldo Emerson)
3. “Creativity arises out of the tension between spontaneity and limitations, the latter (like the river banks) forcing the spontaneity into the various forms which are essential to the work of art or poem.” (Rollo May)
4. “Almost every wise saying has an opposite one, no less wise, to balance it.” (George Santayana)
5. “Opposites are not contradictory but complementary.” (Niels Bohr)
Borrowed with Pride from all over the place.
Posted by Ned Colville on August 24, 2009
1. “Neurosis is the inability to tolerate ambiguity.” (Sigmund Freud)
2. “On the road from the City of Skepticism, I had to pass through the Valley of Ambiguity.” (Adam Smith)
3. “Take advantage of the ambiguity in the world. Look at something and think what else it might be.” (Roger von Oech)
4. “I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until, perhaps, she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.” (Helena Rubinstein)
5. “The creative person is willing to live with ambiguity. He doesn’t need problems solved immediately and can afford to wait for the right ideas.” (Abe Tannenbaum)
Borrowed with pride from all over the place.
Posted by Ned Colville on July 24, 2009
1. “When the only tool you have is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail.” (Abraham Maslow)
2. “The measure of success is not whether you have a tough problem to deal with, but whether it’s the same problem you had last year.” (John Foster Dulles)
3. “We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.” (Albert Einstein)
4. “A problem well stated, is a problem half solved.” (Anon)
5. “The first problem for all of us, men and women, is not to learn, but to unlearn.” (Gloria Steinem)
Borrowed with pride from all over the place.
