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思想Creativity/Ideas[英语名人名言]

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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
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
(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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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