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Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way. -William JamesAn idea will just fly away unless you can stab it with a pencil and write it down. -Bert DeckerIn writing poetry, "a mistake is obviously a point where originality can begin.-A. R. Ammons

Inventors work in much the same way as writers do, by trial and error, and experimentation with modifications. -Genie DickersonThe secret to being original lies in the ability to see relationships. -Judy DeltonSteal and adapt the best of everything that's on TV or in the magazines or in other newspapers. -Al NeuharthIt is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking at it that one overcomes it; but, rather, often by working on the one next to it. Certain peopleand certain things require to be approached on an angle. -Andre GideGenius is personal, decided by fate, but it expresses itself by means of system.There is no work of art without system. -Le Corbusier

Take nothing for granted as beautiful or ugly, but take every building to pieces, and challenge every feature. Learn to distinguish the curious from the beautiful. Get the habit of analysis--analysis will in time enable synthesis to becomeyour habit of mind. 'Think simples' as my old master used to say--meaning to reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles. -Frank Lloyd WrightWe live in a rainbow of chaos. -Paul Cezanne

Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere. -Pablo CasalsOne of the ways that I exercise my imagination is by trying to ask "why?" abouteverything. -Janis IanBut ideas lie everywhere, like apples fallen and melting in the grass for lack of wayfaring strangers with an eye and a tongue for beauty, whether absurd, horrific, or genteel. -Ray BradburyArtists are generally soft-spoken persons who are concerned with their inner visions and images . . . they love to immerse themselves in chaos in order to put it into form. -Rollo MayOriginality is simply a pair of fresh eyes. -T. W. HigginsonTo invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. -Thomas EdisonI am more of a sponge than an inventor. I absorb ideas from every source. My pri

ncipal business is giving commercial value to the brilliant but misdirected ideas of others. -Thomas EdisonKeep on the lookout for novel ideas that others have used successfully. Your idea has to be original only in its adaptation to the problem you're working on. -Thomas EdisonWhen love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. -John RuskinConsider the source in criticism. -Tom LandryGood managers see criticism as a source of information instead of an emotional attack.--UnknownDo what you feel in your heart to be right--for you'll be criticized anyway. You'll be damned if you do and damned if you don't. -Eleanor RooseveltThose who do well, like criticism; those who do not do well, resent it. -Unknow

nSandwich every bit of criticism between two thick layers of praise. -Mary Kay AshTo escape criticism--do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. -Elbert HubbardIt is much easier to be critical than to be correct. -Benjamin DisraeliFor a crowd is not company, and faces are but a gallery of pictures, and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is not love. -Francis BaconLook like the innocent flower but be the serpent under it. -ShakespeareThe passions of wonder and awe are natural to the human heart. -Leon R. KassOur people look to English books as the standard of truth on all subjects and th

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is confidence in English opinions puts an end to inquiry. Our gentlemen even inthe colleges and professions rarely question facts that come from English authors of reputation, hence we have no spirit of investigation. -Noah WebsterOnly the curious will learn and only the resolute overcome the obstacles to learning. -Eugene S. WilsonThe important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason forexisting. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of e

ternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -Albert EinsteinIt is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education. -Albert EinsteinTradition is a guide and not a jailer. -W. Somerset MaughamA cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word. -Ralph Waldo EmersonThe path is smooth that leadeth on to danger. -William ShakespeareThe ignorant are a reservoir of daring. It almost seems that those who have yetto discover the known are particularly equipped for dealing with the unknown. The unlearned have often rushed in where the learned feared to tread, and it is the credulous who are tempted to attempt the impossible. They know not wither theyare going, and give chance a chance. -Eric Hoffer

Dare to be naive. -Buckminster FullerBe daring, be different, be impractical; be anything that will assert integrityof purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary. -Cecil BeatonThe more thou dost advance, the more thy feet pitfalls will meet. The path that

leadeth on is lighted by one fire--the light of daring burning in the heart. Themore one dares, the more he shall obtain. The more he fears, the more that light shall pale--and that alone can guide. -AristotleWhat we get from evolutionary theory is not the peaceable kingdom of a providential God. We get a hellish place of violence and competition and conflict; it's abloody sort of thing. -Prof. Daniel N. Robinson

When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated intoa better language. -John DonneRemember that you will die. -Latin proverbNo one knows whether death, which people fear to be the greatest evil, may not be the greatest good. -PlatoWell, there's a remedy for all things but death, which will be sure to lay us flat one time or other. -Miguel de Cervantes