Curiosity by jonathan anthony

The Future Belongs to the Curious

genkedup — 2013-01-08 01:31:27 UTC

“You have to have an idea of what you are going to do, but it should be a vague idea.”

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:16:55 UTC

Pablo Picasso

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious.”

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:18:39 UTC

“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s kiss on your forehead. Pay attention. It’s all about paying attention. Attention is vitality. It connects you with others. It makes you eager. Stay eager.”

- Susan Sontag

Our number one value isn’t in any of the skills we have. It’s that we’re essentially curious.”

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:19:59 UTC

- Jim Coudal

There is always a Darwin (paraphrased) quote...

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:20:32 UTC

"It is not the strongest of the species that survives; nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is most adaptable to change."

- Charles Darwin

Gen Flux

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:21:24 UTC

What defines GenFlux is a mind-set that embraces instability, that tolerates--and even enjoys--recalibrating careers, business models, and assumptions.

Chessboxing / HipHopChess

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:23:35 UTC

Innovative thinkers have “the capacity to hold two diametrically opposing ideas in their heads. Without panicking or simply settling for one alternative or the other, they’re able to produce a synthesis that is superior to either opposing idea.”

Curiosity > Experience

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:26:00 UTC

“In times of rapid change, experience could be your worst enemy.”

- J. Paul Getty

LAMSTAIH

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:31:33 UTC

"Look At More Stuff, Think About It Harder."

- Andy Stefanovich

Roger Sperry, Neuropsychologist, 1964

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:34:29 UTC

Analogy between neurons and ideas:

"Ideas cause ideas and help evolve new ideas. They interact with each other and with other mental forces in the same brain, in neighboring

brains, and thanks to global communication, in far distant, foreign brains.”

Combinatorial Creativity

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:37:58 UTC

@brainpickings

"We take information, from it synthesize insight, which in turn germinates ideas."

It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:46:28 UTC

- Harry S. Truman

[Un/Re]Learn

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:47:06 UTC

The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn.

-- Alvin Toffler

The Cure

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:47:56 UTC

The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity.

-- Ellen Parr

Everyone is an Entrepreneur

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:51:40 UTC

“People should lead their lives as entrepreneurs -- not necessarily starting companies, but investing in themselves, adapting to the fast changing future, and creating breakout opportunities. Adaptability is the new stability for modern careers.”

The start up of you – Reid Hoffman

Corporate Catalyst

genkedup — 2013-01-08 06:55:37 UTC

Blend entrepreneurial behaviors and big-company capabilities.

Create your own “upstart” company, developing asymmetrical skills under the radar, inside your organization.

- Harald Jarche

Everything is Remix

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:02:06 UTC

Kirby Ferguson

Everything is Remix 2

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:02:50 UTC

Social evolution:

· copy

· transform

· combine

Steal Like An Artist

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:05:01 UTC

Ideas Are the ONLY Thing...

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:09:52 UTC

"Ideas are the only things that survive. Execution is important too; a good idea poorly executed probably won’t go anywhere. But if something is going to last, it’s because there’s a good idea at its core. It’s got to start with the idea."

Jonathan Harris

Connectednesss

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:23:37 UTC

Chance favours the connected mind.

- Steven Johnson

Tired and Emotional...

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:33:18 UTC

@wired (Feb 2012): We are more creative when we are tired and drunk. The inability to focus helps us consider a wider range of possible solutions.

John Pilger polemic

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:56:56 UTC

For many people today, there is no vista, nothing flows. There is only interrupt.

From the media comes a kaleidoscope of images and incoherence. In addition, there is a growing sense of redundancy, a lack of connection between the individual and their interaction with the global world forces. Without a horizon a person can only concentrate on their own immediate need and survival. It is all too easy to be drawn into an existence of claustrophobia, where there is no continuity between actions and experiences.

There is a desperate need to offer an alternative view, to discover a horizon, to rediscover hope. Hope is an act of faith, and has to be sustained by other concrete actions.

However, the first step is to engender an approach, enable the measurement of distances and walking toward. It is show the possible and potential.

- Extract from article in The Guardian (1997?)

Grandeur in ALL!

genkedup — 2013-01-08 07:59:40 UTC

That only which I have within can I see without.

If I meet no Gods, it is because I harbor none.

If there is grandeur in me, I will find grandeur in all.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Child's Clear Eye

genkedup — 2013-01-08 08:01:03 UTC

“Soon the child’s clear eye is clouded over by ideas and opinions, preconceptions, and abstractions.

...

Not until years later does an instinct come that a vital sense of mystery has been withdrawn.

The sun glints through the pines and the heart is pierced in a moment of beauty and strange pain, like a memory of paradise.

After that day, we become seekers.” ― Peter Matthiessen

"12 most inspired online resources to spark creativity"

genkedup — 2013-01-08 20:49:01 UTC

Quotes

2013-02-05 20:32:11 UTC