Quotes About Eureka Moments

#1. Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.

Carl Honore

#2. Work grows out of other work, and there are very few eureka moments.

Anish Kapoor

#3. There are occasionally eureka moments - off the top of my head, maybe Darth Vader's theme, you know, the imperial march.

John Williams

#4. 'Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on.

Tim Hunt

#5. People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Roger Penrose

#6. At a very early age I was attracted to light, as most children are.

Frederick Lenz

#7. I felt proud of them and happy for them as friends. But then I was, not jealous in a bad way, but I just was wishing I had been there ... It did take me a while to accept that reality, but that's over with now.

Malik Rose

#8. Anyone who thinks he has a better idea of what's good for people than people do is a swine.

P. J. O'Rourke

#9. The view is endlessly fulfilling. It is like the answer to a lifetime of questions and vague cravings.

Don DeLillo

#10. The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

Orison Swett Marden

#11. Perhaps the journey towards epiphany is an unseen, steady process towards understanding. Likened to a combination safe, as you scroll the dial towards the inevitable correct combination you cannot tangibly see your progress.

Chris Matakas

#12. Eureka!" Mungo yelled. It was a word that wasn't actually a word but which he'd mathematically proved to exist in a parallel realm and he quite liked the sound of it when it came to needing something to yell in moments of cerebral triumph.

Jeffery Russell

#13. Our world is a shared experience, fractured by individual perspectives

Brian Miller

#14. A ship is always referred to as 'she' because it costs so much to keep one in paint and powder.

Chester W. Nimitz

#15. Part of what makes us human is what we mean to other people, and what people mean to us. I miss meaning something to someone, having that part of being human.

John Scalzi

#16. When you look back at the fight against Communism, one thing that is striking is the degree to which we [the United States] were carried on by our own values. One of the real challenges of the new era is going to be to maintain those values and not adopt those of our adversaries.

David E. Hoffman