Chade-Meng Tan Quotes

If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

To think is not enough, you must think of something.

Less money sometimes allows you to be more creative.

A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

I think better when I'm not sober

See every problem as an opportunity to exercise creative energy.

As competition intensifies, the need for creative thinking increases. It is no longer enough to do the same thing better . . . no longer enough to be efficient and solve problems.

Problems are challenges to creative minds. Without problems, there would be little reason to think at all.

Once your mind is calm and full of love, there is no room for hatred or fear. Others will trust you because of your open heart.

There is a method in his madness, and the rudimentary idea in my mind is growing. It will be a whole idea soon, and then, oh, unconscious cerebration.

Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.

Usually, the main problem with life conundrums is that we don't bring to them enough imagination

If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

A problem with a piece of writing often clarifies itself if you go for a long walk.

Even under the most difficult circumstances you can have creative flexibility.

An affectionate disposition not only makes the mind more peaceful and calm, but it affects our body in a positive way too.

You're mind is working at its best when you're being paranoid. You explore every avenue and possibility of your situation at high speed with total clarity.

[Mathematics] unceasingly calls forth the faculties of observation and comparison; one of its principal weapons is induction: it has frequent recourse to trial and verification; and it affords a boundless scope for the exercise of the highest efforts of imagination and invention.

I like talking to engineers best. They built bridges, they're very precise, very disciplined, yet I find they have roving minds.

Creativity, not money, is used to solve problems.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.