Quotations About Maps, Puzzles, Thought, Creativity, and Objectivity
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"Even before you understand them, your brain is drawn to maps." Ken Jennings |
"I always get what I want because I always want what I get." Tim Bischoff |
"The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think than what to think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves, than to load the memory with thoughts of other men." Bill Beattie |
"All the problems of the world could be settled easily if men were only willing to think. The trouble is that men very often resort to all sorts of devices in order not to think, because thinking is such hard work." Thomas J. Watson |
"In today's economy there are no experts, no 'best and brightest' with all the answers. It's up to each one of us. The only way to screw up is to not try anything." Tom Peters |
"Success isn't something you chase. It's something you have to put forth the effort for constantly. Then maybe it'll come when you least expect it. Most people don't understand that." Michael Jordan |
"People cannot learn by having information pressed into their brains. Knowledge has to be sucked into the brain, not pushed in. First, one must create a state of mind that craves knowledge, interest and wonder. You can teach only by creating an urge to know." Victor Weisskopf |
"What we are actually experiencing is not an information explosion. It is an explosion of data. Data provide neither enlightenment nor knowledge. What we are really experiencing may be access to excess. The mere fact that there is more data available does not mean that people either want it or can use it meaningfully." Patricia Glass Schuman |
"Never, never, never give up." Winston Churchill |
"It's kind of fun to do the impossible." Walt Disney |
