"I could not sleep when I got..." - Quote by Abraham Lincoln
I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
More by Abraham Lincoln
“I am glad to see that a system of labor prevails under which laborers can strike when they want to.”
“While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.”
“Continue to execute all the express provisions of our national Constitution, and the Union will endure forever-it being impossible to destroy it, except by some action not provided for in the instrument itself.”
More on Ideas
“Motivation means we have an idea and we are going to carry through on that idea. We work hard at it, and we are disciplined.”
“For just when ideas fail, a word comes in to save the situation.”
“In all assemblies, though you wedge them ever so close, we may observe this peculiar property, that over their heads there is room enough; but how to reach it is the difficult point. To this end the philosopher's way in all ages has been by erecting certain edifices in the air.”
More on Creativity
“Painters and poets are obliged to exaggerate the proportions of their figures in order to give true perspective.”
“Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.”
“There has never been a poet or orator who thought another better than himself.”