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“Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
-- Kevin Ashton

Source : "Creative People Say No". medium.com. March 18, 2013.

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“Having ideas is not the same thing as being creative. Creation is execution, not inspiration.”
-- Kevin Ashton

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“The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
-- Kevin Ashton

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“There are few overnight successes and many up-all-night successes.”
-- Kevin Ashton

Source : "How to Fly a Horse — The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery". Book by Kevin Ashton, www.businessinsider.com. January 20, 2015.

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“Saying “no” has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined...”
-- Kevin Ashton

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“Saying no”, argues the author Kevin Ashton, “has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined. No guards time, the thread from which we weave our creations. The math of time is simple: you have less than you think and need more than you know.”
-- Kevin Ashton

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“But “no” is the button that keeps us on.”
-- Kevin Ashton

Source : Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.68, Random House

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“Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined.”
-- Kevin Ashton

Source : Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.67, Random House

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“But Piglet is so small that he slips into a pocket, where it is very comfortable to feel him when you are not quite sure whether twice seven is twelve or twenty-two.”

“The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.”

“Pray tell us, what's your favorite number?”

“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than its solution, which may be merely a matter of mathematical or experimental skill.”

“Order is heaven's first law.”

“The point about zero is that we do not need to use it in the operation of daily life. No one goes out to buy zero fish.”

“In regards to the price of commodities, the rise of wages operates as simple interest does, the rise of profit operates like compound interest. Our merchants and masters complain much of the bad effects of high wages in raising the price and lessening the sale of goods. They say nothing concerning the bad effects of high profits. They are silent with regard to the pernicious effects of their own gains. They complain only of those of other people.”

“The man whose whole life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects are perhaps always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding or to exercise his invention in finding out expedients for removing difficulties which never occur. He naturally loses, therefore, the habit of such exertion, and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to become.”

“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”

Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK

“Fear is born of Satan, and if we would only take time to think a moment we would see that everything Satan says is founded upon a falsehood.”