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“In search of ideas I spent yesterday morning in walking about, and went to the stores and bought things in four departments. A wonderful and delightful way of spending time. I think this sort of activity does stimulate creative ideas.”

Thinking Way Doe Ideas Morning Creative Four Wonderful Walking Activity Spending Stores Yesterday Department Delightful Spending Time Creative Ideas

Book:The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921

Source: The Journals of Arnold Bennett: 1911-1921

“When I consider the wonderful activity of the mind, so great a memory of what is past, and such a capacity of penetrating into the future: when I behold such a number of arts and sciences, and such a multitude of discoveries hence arising,--I believe and am firmly persuaded that a nature which contains so many things within itself cannot be mortal.”

Mind Believe Art Past I Believe Memories Numbers Wonderful Activity Discovery Capacity Mortals Immortality Multitudes Art And Science

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero

“I take literature as a really serious human activity. It's not just a playful thing. It can be hilarious and wonderful and performative, but I think it's really serious.”

Thinking Humans Literature Wonderful Serious Activity Human Activity

Author:David Shields

“It is wonderful how the mind is stirred and quickened into activity by brisk bodily exercise.”

Mind Wonderful Exercise Activity

Book:Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age

Source: Letters of Marcus Tullius Cicero: with his treatises on friendship and old age

“So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.”

“Chemists are, on the whole, like physicists, only 'less so'.They don't make quite the same wonderful mistakes, and much what they do is an art, related to cooking, instead of a true science. They have their moments, and their sources of legitimate pride. They don't split atoms, as the physicists do. They join them together, and a very praiseworthy activity that is.”

Art Whole Moments Together Mistake Wonderful Source Pride Activity Cooking Related Chemistry Atoms Splits Physicist Chemist Praiseworthy

Author:Anthony Standen