"I read once about the concepts of a lateral idea and the vertical idea. If you dig a hole and itâ€™s in the wrong place, digging it deeper isnâ€™t going to help. The lateral idea is when you skip over and dig someplace else."

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Source : Seymour Chwast (1985). “The left-handed designer”, Harry N Abrams Inc

Seymour Chwast

#Ideas Quotes #Digging Quotes #Helping Quotes

“I'll play until my knees fall off.”
“I recorded with Sinatra, but the recording business is a very strange strata right now.”
“I'm an around-the-way girl. I'm a singer, songwriter. I'm about positivity and spreading a good message and telling the people's story.”
“The soul is subject to health and disease, just as is the body. The health and disease of both . . . undoubtedly depend upon beliefs and customs, which are peculiar to mankind.”
“Archery is something that I took up later and didn't know I had a natural aptitude for.”
“Basically, I’m not interested in doing research and I never have been... I’m interested in understanding, which is quite a different thing. And often to understand something you have to work it out yourself because no one else has done it.”

Source : Interview with Donald J. Albers, published in Donald J. Albers and Gerald L. Alexanderson "Mathematical People: Profiles and Interviews", 1985.
“We benefited from living with [Bernard] Leach, because suddenly all of his friends became our acquaintances.”
“You have good days and bad days.”

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