思想Creativity/Ideas[英语名人名言]

时间：2007-05-15 06:24:43

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If I have not seen as far as others, it is because giants were standing1 on my shoulders.
-- Hal Abelson

 

Creativity is allowing oneself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
-- Scott Adams, The Dilbert Principle

 

Don't worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you'll have to ram2 them down people's throats.
-- Howard Aiken

 

Most people are more comfortable with old problems than with new solutions.
-- Anonymous3

 

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer4 or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a joke or worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow.
-- Charles Brower

 

I can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
-- John Cage

 

If you can't sleep, then get up and do something instead of lying there and worrying. It's the worry that gets you, not the loss of sleep.
-- Dale Carnegie

 

The empires of the future are the empires of the mind.
-- Winston Churchill

 

Live out of your imagination, not your history.
-- Stephen Covey

 

It is not good enough to have a good mind; the main thing is to use it well.
-- Rene Descartes

 

Joy is but the sign that creative emotion is fulfilling its purpose.
-- Charles Du Bos

 

I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.
-- Albert Einstein

 

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources.
-- Albert Einstein

 

There are no days in life so memorable5 as those which vibrated to some stroke of the imagination.
-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

 

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald

 

There's a saying among prospectors6: "Go out looking for one thing, and that's all you'll ever find."
-- Robert Flaherty

 

To die for an idea is to set a rather high price on conjecture7.
-- Anatole France

 

When a thing has been said and said well, have no scruple8. Take it and copy it.
-- Anatole France

 

Man's mind stretched to a new idea never goes back to its original dimensions.
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes

 

In the sciences, we are now uniquely privileged to sit side by side with the giants on whose shoulders we stand.
-- Gerald Holton

 

There is one thing stronger than all the armies in the world; and that is an idea whose time has come.
-- Victor Hugo

 

If I have seen farther than others, it is because I was standing on the shoulders of giants.
-- Isaac Newton

 

If everybody is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.
-- George S. Patton, Jr.

 

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders9 than the arguments of its opposers.
-- William Penn

 

Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.
-- Pablo Picasso

 

If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not a poet enough to call forth10 its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.
-- Rainer Maria Rilke

 

Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.
-- Will Rogers

 

Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.
-- Bertrand Russell

 

The eyes are not responsible when the mind does the seeing.
-- Publilius Syrus

 

Discovery consists of looking at the same thing as everyone else does and thinking something different.
-- Albert Szent-Gyorgyi, 1937 Nobel Prize in Physiology11 and Medicine

 

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.
-- Mark Twain

 


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1 standing 2hCzgo     
n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的
参考例句：
  • After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
  • They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
2 ram dTVxg     
(random access memory)随机存取存储器
参考例句：
  • 512k RAM is recommended and 640k RAM is preferred.推荐配置为512K内存，640K内存则更佳。
3 anonymous lM2yp     
adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的
参考例句：
  • Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
  • The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。
4 sneer YFdzu     
v.轻蔑；嘲笑；n.嘲笑，讥讽的言语
参考例句：
  • He said with a sneer.他的话中带有嘲笑之意。
  • You may sneer,but a lot of people like this kind of music.你可以嗤之以鼻，但很多人喜欢这种音乐。
5 memorable K2XyQ     
adj.值得回忆的，难忘的，特别的，显著的
参考例句：
  • This was indeed the most memorable day of my life.这的确是我一生中最值得怀念的日子。
  • The veteran soldier has fought many memorable battles.这个老兵参加过许多难忘的战斗。
6 prospectors 6457f5cd826261bd6fcb6abf5a7a17c1     
n.勘探者，探矿者( prospector的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • The prospectors have discovered such minerals as calcite,quartz and asbestos here. 探矿人员在这里发现了方解石、石英、石棉等矿藏。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The prospectors have discovered many minerals here. 探矿人员在这里发现了许多矿藏。 来自辞典例句
7 conjecture 3p8z4     
n./v.推测，猜测
参考例句：
  • She felt it no use to conjecture his motives.她觉得猜想他的动机是没有用的。
  • This conjecture is not supported by any real evidence.这种推测未被任何确切的证据所证实。
8 scruple eDOz7     
n./v.顾忌，迟疑
参考例句：
  • It'seemed to her now that she could marry him without the remnant of a scruple.她觉得现在她可以跟他成婚而不需要有任何顾忌。
  • He makes no scruple to tell a lie.他说起谎来无所顾忌。
9 defenders fe417584d64537baa7cd5e48222ccdf8     
n.防御者( defender的名词复数 )；守卫者；保护者；辩护者
参考例句：
  • The defenders were outnumbered and had to give in. 抵抗者寡不敌众，只能投降。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • After hard fighting,the defenders were still masters of the city. 守军经过奋战仍然控制着城市。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 forth Hzdz2     
adv.向前；向外，往外
参考例句：
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
11 physiology uAfyL     
n.生理学，生理机能
参考例句：
  • He bought a book about physiology.他买了一本生理学方面的书。
  • He was awarded the Nobel Prize for achievements in physiology.他因生理学方面的建树而被授予诺贝尔奖。

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