“The system will always be defended by those countless people who have enough intellect to defend but not quite enough to innovate.”

It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.

The simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Although feelings are not supposed to intrude on business discussions, they do anyway – we just disguise them as logic.

Most people are put off science because maths is the gateway and they can’t handle it. What we should be teaching is operational maths because, in general, the maths we need to carry out science is pretty straightforward.

This new meta-system is very much in favor of the self, but a self that is based on a proper sense of dignity, not on an inflated ego. A person who dare not admit he is wrong inflates his ego but weakens his self.

The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

We do not make very full value of the opportunities provided by technology because we prefer critical to constructive thinking, argument to design.

The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.

Intelligence is something we are born with. Thinking is a skill that must be learned.

We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

America is not just a country, it’s an idea.

Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.

If you do not design the future, someone or something else will design it for you.

An idea that is developed and put into action is more important than an idea that exists only as an idea.

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive—to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love—then make that day count!

Each and every bad seed counts, for even if they don’t survive or grow too beautifully, a bad seed allows you to re-evalutate the others and appreciate them even more.

Getting 1 percent better every day counts for a lot in the long-run.

The pleasure we obtain from music comes from counting, but counting unconsciously. Music is nothing but unconscious arithmetic.

Being motivated and curious counts for more than being smart because it leads to action.

Without love, deeds, even the most brilliant, count as nothing.

Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

Dearest Lord, teach me to be generous; teach me to serve you as you deserve; to give and not to count the cost.