Aristophanes Quotes

Never listen to music when you're trying go come up with a Big Idea.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

I write about two hours a day, and I write in fits and spurts - 45 minutes here, a half-hour there - and when I get stuck, which happens often, I take the dogs for a walk. But during the time when I'm not actually writing, I'm thinking.

This is probably an asset that my wife hates, where you compartmentalize. Most times, I think it's an asset, where you can just sort of feel like you chop off one part of your brain to do the next thing that you've got to do.

Thought makes everything fit for use.

All profound distraction opens certain doors. You have to allow yourself to be distracted when you are unable to concentrate.

If you are leaping a ravine, the moment of takeoff is a bad time for considering alternative strategies... Do it in the 'closed' mode. But the moment the action is over, try to return to the 'open' mode... because in that mode we are the most aware, most receptive, most creative, and therefore at our most intelligent.

It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction.

What thought can think, another thought can mend.

Think, the successful idea is always in your mind. Think it out.

Think inside the work - outside the work

With vertical thinking one may look for different approaches until one finds a promising one. With lateral thinking one goes on generating as many approaches as one can even after one has found a promising one. With vertical thinking one is trying to select the best approach but with lateral thinking one is generating different approaches for the sake of generating them.

help conquer the IQ shortage worry less and think more

You might get an inspired thought or idea to help you move towards what you want faster.

You'll always get an idea if you think and don't panic.

After years of having immersed myself in science, I do think that if you master several different ways of thinking, it makes your own thought processes more agile.

To understand a new idea, break an old habit.

Nimble thought can jump both sea and land.

I try not to get caught up on how cool I am. That way nothing ever gets done. I'm always thinking about what I haven't done.

The normal person classifies an object, and then forgets about it. The creative person, by contrast, is always open to new possibilities.

I just try to put as much logic into what I'm doing as possible and try to have fun with it.

If you think of a school drawing while you work, your drawing will look like one.

My mind contains many good ideas, but it's not always easy to squeeze one out.

The real basic power of an individual isn't what he or she knows; it's the ability to think and learn and face new challenges.

The mind does most of its best thinking when we aren't there. The answers are there in the morning.