Synectics Quotes & Sayings

I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything. — Winston Churchill

I really feel the need to create an alternate world, a vision of what might be magical and beautiful and fantastic about being human. — Shary Boyle

The first fact in the history of Christendom is a number of people who say they have seen the Resurrection. — C.S. Lewis

It's not merely a rule to be followed. It's a miracle to be experienced. A grace to be received. It's a promise to be believed. Do you believe, do you trust, that God sees every wrong done to you, that he knows every hurt, that he assesses motives and circumstances with perfect accuracy, that he is impeccably righteous and takes no bribes, and that he will settle all accounts with perfect justice? This is what it means to be "conscious of God" in the midst of unjust pain. — John Piper

Every age has the Stonehenge it deserves
or desires. — Jacquetta Hawkes

My mother named me Deenie because right before I was born she saw a movie about a beautiful girl named Wilmadeene, who everybody called Deenie for short. — Judy Blume

That's a fear when someone you love dies, isn't it? Especially if you're only young when it happens, you might worry that over time you'll stop being able to picture them properly. Or that the sound of their voice will merge into other voices, so that you can no longer be sure how it was they sounded. — Nathan Filer

I MUST go to what desperately frightens me
the chance of failure. — Sally Field

A lot of the reasons why something is a favorite thing are all things you don't necessarily see, the place, the people, the time, where you are, what it meant to you at the time. — Jeffrey Jones

Freedom was conditioned by man's physical body, heredity, and environment. — Kenneth Scott Latourette

How strange to have failed as a social creature - even criminals do not fail that way - they are the law's "Loyal Opposition," so to speak. But the insane are always mere guests on earth, eternal strangers carrying around broken decalogues that they cannot read. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You're nobody 'til somebody kills you. — The Notorious B.I.G.

The results from both studies clearly indicated that in terms of short- and long-term happiness, buying experiences made people feel better than buying products. — Richard Wiseman

An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass. — Heinrich Boll

I like writing about big turning points, where professional and personal lives coalesce, where the boundaries are coming down, and you're faced with a set of choices which will change life forever. — Tana French