Charles Bowers quotes

A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right person's brow. When innovations are in the exploration stage, they need a champion to take them through the rest of the developmental stages. Otherwise the bureaucracy, politics, and people who can only see the fledgling and potential innovation through today's glasses will smother it or let it quietly die from malnourishment.
-- Charles Bowers

#Glasses #Ideas #People

Don't call the world dirty because you forgot to clean your glasses.

Nothing in Nature's sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high-- Fill all the Glasses there; for why Should every Creature Drink but I? Why, Man of Morals, tell me why?

Cinderella's glass shoe was the perfect size.... so why did it slip off as she ran?- It must have been to attract the attention of Prince Charming.. I don't see any other explanation

Ideas may drift into other minds, but they do not drift my way. I have to go and fetch them. I know no work manual or mental to equal the appalling heart-breaking anguish of fetching an idea from nowhere.

A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

My idea of the perfect bottom would be nice, bubbly, curvy, firm, maybe a little bit bouncy.

I want to leave my readers with a sequence of ideas/phrases that makes them question something they'd taken for granted. Or that confuses them to the point that they laugh, but contains one or two phrases/lines that stick in their minds.

The man with but one idea in his head is sure to exaggerate that to top-heaviness, and thus he loses his equilibrium.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

Money has no color. If you can build a better mousetrap, it won't matter whether you're black or white. People will buy it.