- Apple was treating computers and media devices as tools, as more than just wires and RAM shoved in a box; they were not so much minimal devices as devices that coordinate functions. And then came the iPod and the iPhone, an invention like a divining rod, tapping into invisible streams of information.
http://www.vogue.com/1415025/apple-design-genius-jonathan-ive?curator=MediaREDEF - “You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction.”
– Alvin Toffler - “If you’re not sure where you’re going, you’ll probably end up somewhere else.”
– Anonymous - “If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction.”
– Dietrich Bonhoeffer - “It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go.”
– Jim Rohn - “Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor.”
– Brian Tracy - “Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success.”
– Denis Waitley - “Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius–and a lot of courage–to move in the opposite direction.”
– E. F Schumacker - “There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction”
– Winston Churchill - “The best way to predict your future is to create it.” – Anonymous
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Creative quotes and quotations
On Intuition…Is intuition some mysterious way of acquiring knowledge out of the ether? Is it just the subconscious lending a hand? Are women naturally better at it than men? Who cares? It clearly works and is a critical creative tool. So use that gut feel, listen to your body and take note of the thoughts that come unbidden to mind.
See also
children, ideas, illumination, imagination, incubation*, inspiration, innovation, letting go,mind, openness, stimulation, subconscious*, surprise, thinking
Quotes
‘Be brave enough to live life creatively. The creative is the place where no one else has ever been. You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. You can’t get there by bus, only by hard work and risk and by not quite knowing what you are doing. What you’ll discover will be wonderful. What you’ll discover will be yourself.’
‘intuition is the source of scientific knowledge.’
‘I would rather trust a woman’s instinct than a man’s reason.’
‘Trust your hunches. They are usually based on facts filed away just below the conscious level.’
‘As we did our work, we felt at times that there was almost a hand guiding us. Because we would go from one step to the next, and somehow we would know which was the right way to go. And I really can’t tell how we knew that.’
‘Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.’
‘A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.’
‘Alas! I do not believe that inspiration falls from heaven. think it rather the result of a profound indolence.’
‘The only really valuable thing is intuition.’
‘I believe in intuition and inspiration; at times I feel certain I am right while not knowing thereason.’
‘The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honours the servant and has forgotten the gift.’
‘The intellect has little to do on the road to discovery. There comes a leap in consciousness, call it intuition or what you will, and the solution comes to you and you don’t know how or why.’
‘I call intuition cosmic fishing. You feel a nibble, then you’ve got to hook the fish.’
‘I have had my results for a long time, but I do not yet know how I am to arrive at them.’
‘Instinct leads, logic does but follow.’
‘Intuition does not denote something contrary to reason, but something outside the province of reason.’
‘Instinct must be thwarted just as one prunes the branches of a tree so that it will grow better.’
‘No matter how deep a study you make. What you really have to rely on is your own intuition and when it comes down to it, you really don’t know what’s going to happen until you do it.’
‘The disclosure of a new fact, the leap forward, the conquest over yesterday’s ignorance, is an act not of reason but of imagination, of intuition.’
‘A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.’
‘Knowledge has three degrees—opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.’
— Plotinus
‘It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.’
‘It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It is may partner.’
‘I’m saying that we should trust our intuition. I believe that the principles of universal evolution are revealed to us through intuition. And I think that if we combine our intuition and our reason, we can respond in an evolutionary sound way to our problems.’
‘If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.’
‘If you train yourself to listen to your intuition and to follow its bidding, you will greatly increase your percentage of success in life.’
‘For all the talk you hear about knowledge being such a wonderful thing, instinct is worth forty of it for real unerringness.’
‘Trust your own instinct. Your mistakes might as well be your own, instead of someone else’s.’