I'll break them up by person. Each one of their lives has significant meaning to everyone and each has lived a lesson that begs to be heard by those who are willing to hear them. Check it out!
Albert Einstein:
"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction."
"Imagination is more important than knowledge."
"I want to know God's thoughts; the rest are details."
"The only real valuable thing is intuition."
"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."
"Great spirits have often encountered violent opposition from weak minds."
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
"The only thing that interferes with my learning is my education."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing."
"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."
"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination."
"It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure."
"The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity."
"It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education."
Thomas Edison:
"Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up."
"Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work." (When asked about his thousands of tries to invent the lightbulb, each of which to that point had failed.
"If we all did the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves."
"To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk."
"Nearly every man who develops an idea works it up to the point where it looks impossible, and then he gets discouraged. That's not the place to become discouraged. "
Basically it comes down to: Use imagination all the time, and never give up when an idea seems bad. Advice anyone and everyone in the creative arts profession could use, eh?
