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• David Hare:

  I was slightly worried that [Robert] Hughes might talk above my head. But you forget. Really clever people are always lucid. It's stupid people who obfuscate.

• Nolan Bushnell:

  The critical ingredient is getting off your butt and doing something. It's as simple as that. A lot of people have ideas, but there are few who decide to do something about them now. Not tomorrow. Not next week. But today. The true entrepreneur is a doer, not a dreamer.

• Samuel Johnson:

  To do nothing is in every man's power.

• David M. Kelley:

  The best path to innovation is through what we call enlightened trial-and-error. The day starts, make a bunch of crummy prototypes and the next day show them to customers, users and manufacturing. They'll tell you what's wrong. Take copious notes and fix it.

• John W. Gardner:

  We are continually faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

• Frank McKinney "Kin" Hubbard:

  You won't skid if you stay in a rut.

• Dennis Miller:

  Life is all about change. In fact, life is like riding the bus: it requires change.

• Stephen Sondheim:

  If you told me to write a love song tonight, I'd have a lot of trouble. But if you tell me to write a love song about a girl with a red dress who goes into a bar and is on her fifth martini and is falling off her chair, that's a lot easier, and it makes me free to say anything I want.

• John Cage:

  I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.

• John Chapin [Fast Company #35]:

  "Test, test, test," chants [LifeMinders] cofounder John Chapin... "A person with an idea and no data is just another..." He pauses and smiles. "Well, just another person with an opinion."

• Tolstoy:

  Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.

• Simon Munnery:

  Many are prepared to suffer for their art. Few are prepared to learn to draw.

• Will Rogers:

  It's not the things we don't know that get us into trouble; it's the things we do know that ain't so.

• Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi:

  Unfortunately, one cannot be exceptional and normal at the same time. Parents often fret and plot to make their talented children more popular without realizing the inherent contradiction. Popularity, or even the strong ties to friends so common in adolescence, tends to make a young person conform to the peer culture. If the peer group itself is intellectual ... then the conformity supports the development of talent. But in most cases it is not. Then loneliness, however painful, helps protect the interests of the adolescent from being diluted by the typical concerns of that stage of life.

• Paul Goodman:

  Enjoyment is not a goal, it is a feeling that accompanies important ongoing activity.

• Alfred Sloan:

  I take it we are all in complete agreement on the decision here. . . . Then I propose we postpone further discussion until our next meeting to give ourselves time to develop disagreement and perhaps gain some understanding of what the decision is all about.

• Carl Sagan:

  In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again.  They really do it.  It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful.  But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

• Paul R. Ehrlich:

  The first rule of intelligent tinkering is to save all the parts.

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