Your mind has an incredible ability to cross-pollinate—that is, to connect disparate things to solve problems in unique ways or envision new creations. Einstein attributed many of his physics breakthr...
Massachusetts’s search and seizure provision was the work of John Adams, who had been so strongly moved by Otis’s monumental speech nearly twenty years earlier. Through Adams, Article XIV of the Massa...
Marcus Aurelius once said that a person’s life is dyed with the color of his imagination.
It was a dream project for Tesla, and Westinghouse was awarded the contract. Construction began immediately, and Tesla would oversee it. Progress was slow.
In 1898, Tesla announced his latest invention: a way to remotely control machines with radio technology. Skepticism was widely expressed and quickly diffused thanks to his Madison Square Garden demons...
His malaise couldn’t snuff his imagination and love of his work, however. He refocused his efforts on commercially viable machinery and—in 1906, on his 50th birthday—presented a 200-horsepower bladele...
First, that the seed of greatness exists in every human being. Whether it sprouts or not is our choice. Second, that there are no such things as natural-born under- or overachievers—there are simply p...
Allis Chalmers, an American manufacturing company, and the railway and lighting division of the Westinghouse Company contracted Tesla to build his flying machine, but the project never began for unkno...
Thinking is the enemy of creativity because it’s self-conscious.
Knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
Calls to adventure are puzzles waiting to be solved. Anyone can apply, but the price of admission is paid in imagination. As journeys unfold, new challenges arise and pressures mount. These successive...
Being in the right place (physical, educational, societal, or otherwise) at the right time can influence our destinies as much as anything else. Now,
We all face a fundamental choice in our lives. Do we take the path prescribed by our now you’re supposed to society, or do we take our own path to toward the life we feel we ought to be living?
Mark Twain said all ideas are second-hand, consciously and unconsciously drawn from a million outside sources.
Like genius itself, creativity is a process, not a providence. The
It’s no coincidence that geniuses not only dare to dream of the impossible for their work, but do the same for their lives.
It takes curiosity to find your call to adventure, it takes courage to venture into the unknown, and it takes imagination to create your path.
Einstein said that imagination is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be...
A single ray of light from a distant star falling upon the eye of a tyrant in bygone times may have altered the course of his life, may have changed the destiny of nations, may have transformed the su...
You have been my friend, you believed in me when others had no faith; you were brave enough to go ahead when others lacked courage; you supported me when even your own engineers lacked vision. ...