Echoes

He who lives sees much. He who travels sees more.

Traveling — it leaves you speechless, then turns you into a storyteller.

The most dangerous worldview is the worldview of those who have not viewed the world.

In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's there are few.

Traveling offers you a hundred roads to adventure, and gives your heart wings.

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

A gift to those who contemplate the wonders of cities and the marvels of traveling.

Stubborn and ardent clinging to one's opinion is the best proof of stupidity.

You must know the big ideas in the big disciplines and use them routinely — all of them, not just a few.

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

It is immigrants who brought to this land the skills of their hands and brains to make it a beacon of opportunity and hope for all men.

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none.

Every generation has the obligation to free men's minds for a look at new worlds… to look out from a higher plateau than the last generation.

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

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.

When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.

If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything.

I do not speak the minds of others except to speak my own mind better.

Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.

Nor less I deem that there are Powers / Which of themselves our minds impress; / That we can feed this mind of ours / In a wise passiveness.

The world will hardly admit of an excuse for a man leaving a coast unexplored he has once discovered.

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

To believe your own thought, to believe that what is true for you in your private heart is true for all men — that is genius.

Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.