Lateral Thinking Quotes - Page 3

• A successful work of art is not one which resolves objective contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure.

  Theodor Adorno

  Success, Art, Thinking

  "Essays on Music".

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• Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour.

  Peter Drucker

  Thinking, Becoming, Brainstorming

  Peter Drucker (2012). “Post-Capitalist Society”, p.18, Routledge

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• The sorcery and charm of imagination, and the power it gives to the individual to transform his world into a new world of order and delight, makes it one of the most treasured of all human capacities.

  Frank Barron

  Order, Giving, Imagination

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• Imagination is more important than knowledge.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Positive, Leadership

  Albert Einstein (2015). “Bite-Size Einstein: Quotations on Just About Everything from the Greatest Mind of the Twentieth Century”, p.32, St. Martin's Press

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• Ideas shape the course of history.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Inspirational, Life Changing, Carpe Diem

  "The Peter Plan: A Proposal for Survival" by Laurence J. Peter, (p. 97), 1976.

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• Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come.

  Victor Hugo

  Inspirational, Strength, Time

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• We think in generalities, but we live in detail.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Inspirational, Time, Educational

  Alfred North Whitehead (2014). “Science and Philosophy”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination.

  John Dewey

  Change, Creativity, Science

  The Quest for Certainty Ch. 11

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• The map is not the territory.

  Alfred Korzybski

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Journey

  Science and Sanity (1933).

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• No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive.

  John Cassavetes

  Inspirational, Children, Creativity

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  What is now proved was once only imagined.

  William Blake

  Positive, Spiritual, Positivity

  William Blake, David Fuller (2000). “William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose”, p.132, Pearson Education

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