18 11 / 2011
"Creativity is about seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought."
13 11 / 2011
"I am often, I believe, praying for others when I should be doing things for them. It’s so much easier to pray for a bore than to go visit him."
30 10 / 2011
Einstein on intuition & God.
Einstein described this intuitive genius as the ability to read the mind of God. When assessing a theory, he would ask himself, Is this the way that God would design the universe? And he expressed his discomfort with quantum mechanics, which is based on the idea that probability plays a governing role in the universe by declaring that he could not believe God would play dice. (At one physics conference, Niels Bohr was prompted to urge Einstein to quit telling God what to do.)
30 10 / 2011
"A little study of God inclines man to atheism. A deep study inclines man to faith."
30 10 / 2011
"The people in the Indian countryside don’t use [rational thought] like we do. They use their intuition instead … Intuition is a very powerful thing, more powerful than intellect, in my opinion. That’s had a big impact on my work."
08 9 / 2011
Shotgun the wall with creative ideas, or educate clients on how to recognize them?
“Uncertainty drives the search for and generation of creative ideas, but uncertainty also makes us less able to recognize creativity, perhaps when we need it most,” the researchers wrote. “Revealing the existence and nature of a bias against creativity can help explain why people might reject creative ideas and stifle scientific advancements, even in the face of strong intentions to the contrary. … The field of creativity may need to shift its current focus from identifying how to generate more creative ideas to identify how to help innovative institutions recognize and accept creativity.”
10 2 / 2011
How did Prussia in the 1800’s sell the potato? Germany make the veil unappealing? Europe make a train ride “better”? By reframing the situation.
06 2 / 2011
A Food Manifesto (NYtimes)
“If you support seat-belt, tobacco and alcohol laws, sewer systems and traffic lights, you should support legislation curbing the relentless marketing of soda and other foods that are hazardous to our health.”
06 2 / 2011
"we have no government armed with power capable of contending with human passions unbridled by morality and religion. Avarice, ambition, revenge, or gallantry, would break the strongest cords of our Constitution as a whale goes through a net. Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other."
