Joshua Fernandez quotes

“Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution.”
-- Joshua Fernandez

Source : "It Takes Two Bright Sparks to BOO". New Straits Times, August 23, 1998.

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“Choices, the greatest power we have, Choices, the path which is destiny, Choices, the result which is you... .”
-- Joshua Fernandez

Source : Joshua Fernandez, “Choices”

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“Invest your time, spend less of it, cause you simply can't afford it. Once spent, this time have you, gone will it be, somewhere in history.”
-- Joshua Fernandez

Source : Joshua Fernandez, “Clock On The Wall”

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“Courage is defined as: the ability to face danger, difficulty, uncertainty, or pain without being overcome by fear or being deflected from a chosen course of action. Many of today's world leaders have great courage: I wonder... would we be better off with cowardice?”
-- Joshua Fernandez

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“Believing in an idea is dangerous! Because belief is absolute, and absolute, is unconditional, it is supreme, its ultimate and therefore fixed, which by definition will never be acceptable to change.”
-- Joshua Fernandez

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“Self-actualizing people are those who have come to a high level of maturation, health and self-fulfillment... the values that self-actualizers appreciate include truth, creativity, beauty, goodness, wholeness, aliveness, uniqueness, justice, simplicity, and self-sufficiency.”

“Every creative act draws on the past whether it pretends to or not. It draws on what it knows. There's no such thing, really, as a creative act in a vacuum.”

“I was attracted to photography because it was technical, full of gadgets, and I was obsessed with science. But at some point around fifteen or sixteen, I had a sense that photography could provide a bridge from the world of science to the world of art, or image. Photography was a means of crossing into a new place I didn't know.”

“The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.”

“My object to venture the suggestion that an important application of phonetics to metrical problems lies in the study of phonetic word-structure.”

Source : Adelaide Crapsey (1918). “A Study in English Metrics”

“I did not ask for objections, but for comments, or helpful suggestions. I looked for more loyalty from you, Captain Hornblower.' That made the whole argument pointless. If Leighton only wanted servile agreement there was no sense in continuing...”

Source : "A Ship of the Line". Book by C. S. Forester, 1938.

“The association of books with their readers is unlike any other between objects and their users.”

“I'm chairman of the Republican Governors Association.”

Source : "Romney camp doubles down on welfare reform claim". "Your World" with Stuart Varney, www.foxnews.com. August 8, 2012.

“We gain nothing by being with such as ourselves. We encourage one another in mediocrity. I am always longing to be with men more excellent than myself.”

“Pattern recognition and association make up the core of our thought. These activities involve millions of operations carried out in parallel, outside the field of our consciousness. If AI appeared to hit a brick wall after a few quick victories, it did so owing to its inability to emulate these processes.”