Echoes

I can only think while walking; as soon as I stop, I no longer think, and my mind only moves with my feet.

Methinks that the moment my legs begin to move, my thoughts begin to flow.

It is solved by walking.

It is only ideas gained from walking that have any worth.

Above all, do not lose your desire to walk. Every day I walk myself into a state of well-being and walk away from every illness. I have walked myself into my best thoughts, and I know of no thought so burdensome that one cannot walk away from it.

We do not belong to those who have ideas only among books, when stimulated by books. It is our habit to think outdoors — walking, leaping, climbing, dancing.

Walking is man's best medicine.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

An early-morning walk is a blessing for the whole day.

Bold ideas, unjustified anticipations, and speculative thought, are our only means for interpreting nature: our only organon, our only instrument, for grasping her.

These sudden inspirations never happen except after some days of voluntary effort which has appeared absolutely fruitless. The role of this unconscious work in mathematical invention appears to me incontestable. Rest gives back to the mind its force and freshness.

One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

I only went out for a walk, and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

The stomach is not to be loaded, for there is nothing so hostile to thought as a full belly.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things. And the reason they were able to do that was that they've had more experiences or they have thought more about their experiences than other people... Unfortunately, that's too rare a commodity. A lot of people in our industry haven't had very diverse experiences. So they don't have enough dots to connect, and they end up with very linear solutions without a broad perspective on the problem. The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

The secret to doing good research is always to be a little underemployed. You waste years by not being able to waste hours.

Fool," said my Muse to me, "look in thy heart and write.

Inspiration is a guest that does not always answer the first invitation. Meanwhile we must work, and a self-respecting artist must not fold his hands on the pretext that he is not in the mood. If we wait for the mood, without endeavouring to meet it halfway, we easily become indolent and apathetic. We must be patient, and believe that inspiration will come to those who can master their despondency.

Genius, in truth, means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.

A part of good science is to see what everyone else can see but think what no one else has ever said.

The mind is not a vessel that needs filling, but wood that needs igniting.

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.

Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness.