"My advice to graduates is to do anything except what you are trained for. Take that training to a place where it is out of place and stimulate ideas, shake up establishments, and don't take no for an answer."

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Source : "Where Do New Ideas Come From?" by Nicholas Negroponte, www.wired.com. January 1, 1996.

Nicholas Negroponte

#Ideas Quotes #Advice Quotes #Training Quotes

“Man is ill because he is never still.”
“Employ in everything a certain casualness which conceals art and creates the impression that what is done and said is accomplished without effort and without its being thought about. It is from this, in my opinion, that grace largely derives.”
“So the little prince tamed the fox. And when the hour of his departure drew near-- Ah," said the fox, "I shall cry." It is your own fault," said the little prince. "I never wished you any sort of harm; but you wanted me to tame you . . ." Yes, that is so," said the fox. But now you are going to cry!" said the little prince. Yes, that is so," said the fox. Then it has done you no good at all!" It has done me good," said the fox, "because of the color of the wheat fields.”
“The reason why the race of man moves slowly is because it must move all together.”

Source : Thomas Brackett Reed, Mrs. Susan Prentice Merrill Reed (1911). “Orations and addresses”
“New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.”

Source : John Keble, “Morning”
“If we're so awful and we're so bad, you ought to check out the nightlife in Leningrad.”
“A mind free from all disturbances is Yoga.”
“If I was made of chocolate I would melt myself in a car to ruin the interior.”

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