John Hockenberry Quotes

A guilty conscience is the mother of invention.

Frustration is fuel that can lead to the development of an innovative and useful idea.

The only geniuses produced by the chaos of society are those who do something about it. Chaos breeds geniuses. It offers a man something to be a genius about.

Every idea occurs while you are working. If you are sitting around waiting for inspiration, you could sit there forever.

Ideas are the beginning of all achievement.

Nothing primes inspiration more than necessity.

The immersive ugliness of our everyday environments in America is entropy made visible.

Panic is the great access of creativity because that's the only way to get rid of your mind.

Don't be pushed by your problems, be led by your dreams. Govern your life by priorities not your pressures.

[It's] useful to ask ourselves, 'Just how global are we?' before we think about where we go from here.

Hope, even more than necessity, is the mother of invention.

When you learn through coding, [you're] coding to learn. You're learning it in a meaningful context, and that's the best way of learning things.

In the attempt to make scientific discoveries, every problem is an opportunity — and the more difficult the problem, the greater will be the importance of its solution.

If you can manage to experience three positive emotions for every one negative emotion … you dramatically improve your health and your ability to successfully tackle any problem you're facing.

If anybody here has trouble with the concept of design humility, reflect on this: It took us 5,000 years to put wheels on our luggage.

The West may collapse very suddenly. Complex civilizations do that, because they operate, most of the time, on the edge of chaos.

My way of working was different years ago. I used to wait until an idea came to me. Now I go half-way to meet it, though I don't know whether I find it any the quicker.

The central position of finance capital is going to come to an end, and it's going to steadily move to the sides, the margins of our society, transformed from being a master into a servant, a servant to the productive economy and of human needs.

Ideas are the greatest and most crucially practical power on earth.

No precautions, and no precautionary principle, can avoid problems that we do not yet foresee. We need a stance of problem-fixing, not just problem-avoidance.

The power of work, and the power of creativity can be your salvation.

We should spend less time at universities filling our students' minds with content by lecturing at them, and more time igniting their creativity … by actually talking with them.

Exercise often moves us straight from stagnation to inspiration, from problem to solution, from self-pity to self-respect.

I think artists can go to a level of vision that can often save us from a situation which seems to have no solution whatsoever.

Ideas are great arrows, but there has to be a bow.