Combinatory Play Quotes

#1. Combinatory play seems to be the essential feature in productive thought.

Albert Einstein

#2. I never decided to start singing, to be a singer.

Stephen Malkmus

#3. Cycling is an excruciating sport - a rider's power is only as great as his capacity to endure pain - and it is often remarked that the best cyclists experience their physical agonies as a relief from private torments. The bike gives suffering a purpose.

Philip Gourevitch

#4. The problems we are experiencing are different aspects of one single crisis, which is a crisis in perception. It derives from the fact that most of us, and especially our large social institutions, subscribe to the concepts of an outdated worldview.

Joseph P. Kauffman

#5. Progress will always have as its recourse to exaggerate what it cannot surpass.

Franz Grillparzer

#6. Your basic Southern Baptist would willingly delay his personal ascent into heaven for the baser pleasure of hanging around to see you burn in hell.

Rick Gavin

#7. The friends of tabloid newspapers often point out that their journalism exists only because millions of people pay money to read it.

Nick Davies

#8. In actuality, no one ever sank so deep that he could not sink deeper, and there may be one or many who sank deeper. So it is always possible to be happy and grateful that things are not worse!

Soren Kierkegaard

#9. you asked me if I believed in eternal love. Love is something way too abstract and indefinable. It depends on what we perceive and what we experience. If we don't exist, it doesn't exist. And we change so much; love must change as well.

Julie Maroh

#10. Don't try to solve the entire problem on day one.

Fred Wilson