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mistake greatness ignorant
Charles Caleb Colton True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant.
mistake flirting errors
Charles Caleb Colton Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
mistake ignorance writing
Charles Caleb Colton Ignorance is a blank sheet, on which we may write; but error is a scribbled one, on which we must first erase.
mistake creativity science
Charles Caleb Colton A harmless hilarity and a buoyant cheerfulness are not infrequent concomitants of genius; and we are never more deceived than when we mistake gravity for greatness, solemnity for science, and pomposity for erudition.
mistake block sweat
Charles Stross Writers block: when I get it, it's because my subconscious spotted that I'd make a huge structural mistake in constructing a novel before my conscious mind became aware of it, and threw on the brakes. So I've learned not to sweat it: take two days off, then back up a chapter, read through, and try to work out why I'm suddenly uneasy about continuing.
mistake ends chains
Charles Stross Fatal accidents never happen because of just one mistake. It takes a whole chain of stupids lining up just so to put a full stop at the end of an epitaph.
mistake men thank-god
Charles Spurgeon Men talk of "the mistakes of Scripture." I thank God that I have never met with any. Mistakes of translation there may be, for translators are men. But mistakes of the original word there never can be, for the God who spoke it is infallible, and so is every word he speaks, and in that confidence we find delightful rest.
mistake beginning-middle-and-end execution
Charles Spurgeon A sermon without Christ as its beginning, middle, and end is a mistake in conception, a crime in execution.
creativity mean order
Alan Arkin Creativity means learning where the rules exist, and then breaking them! Saying, "It's better this way." But you have to know the rules in order to break them with any grace.
creativity something-new knows
Alan Alda If you know what you're looking for, that's all you'll get - what's previously known. But when you're open to what's possible, you get something new - that's creativity.
creativity secret genius
Al Seckel The true secret to genius is in creativity, not in technical mechanics.
creativity lines way
Al Hirschfeld Writers who drew, they all seemed to draw the same way. They managed to keep that childlike creativity in their line.
creativity people creative
Akio Morita From a management standpoint, it is very important to know how to unleash people's inborn creativity. My concept is that anybody has creative ability, but very few people know how to use it.
creativity example apollo
Akio Morita My solution to the problem of unleashing creativity is always to set up a target. The best example of this was the Apollo project in the United States.
creativity technology self
Akio Morita There are three creativities: creativity in technology, in product planning, and in marketing. To have any one of these without the others is self defeating in business.
creativity talent awareness
Chogyam Trungpa There is no such thing as talent, only awareness.
creativity people creative
Chogyam Trungpa People's creativity is very much alive, but when they get paid for their creativity, they often experience that as rather meaningless. Money as the reward for their creative process is very one-dimensional, a tremendous comedown.
science uniforms taste
Charles Caleb Colton In science, reason is the guide; in poetry, taste. The object of the one is truth, which is uniform and indivisible; the object of the other is beauty, which is multiform and varied.
science disorder cures
Charles Caleb Colton No disorders have employed so many quacks, as those that have no cure; and no sciences have exercised so many quills, as those that have no certainty.
science mind cost
Charles Caleb Colton The acquirements of science may be termed the armour of the mind; but that armour would be worse than useless, that cost us all we had, and left us nothing to defend.
science tolerance religion
Alan Watts We are not clear as to the role in life of these chemicals; nor are we clear as to the role of the physician. You know, of course, that in ancient times there was no clear distinction between priest and physician.
science law statistics
Edward Gibbon The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular.
science geometry
David Hilbert Geometry is the most complete science.
science mind problem
David Hilbert He who seeks for methods without having a definite problem in mind seeks in the most part in vain.
science past imagination
David Hume We have no other notion of cause and effect, but that of certain objects, which have always conjoin'd together, and which in all past instances have been found inseparable. We cannot penetrate into the reason of the conjunction. We only observe the thing itself, and always find that from the constant conjunction the objects acquire an union in the imagination.
science intelligent winning
Astro Teller Building intelligent machines can teach us about our minds - about who we are - and those lessons will make our world a better place. To win that knowledge, though, our species will have to trade in another piece of its vanity.