"Many ideas grow better when transplanted into..." - Quote by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprang up.
More by Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr
“Me wretched! Let me curr to quercine shades!Effund your albid hausts, lactiferous maids!O, might I vole to some umbrageous clump,--Depart,--be off,--excede,--evade,--erump!”
“The very aim and end of our institutions is just this: that we may think what we like and say what we think.”
“Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.”
More on Ideas
“The teacher is one who makes two ideas grow where only one grew before.”
“It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world.”
“Because ideas have to be original only with regard to their adaptation to the problem at hand, I am always extremely interested in how others have used used them.”
More on Collaboration
“When you trust the director you want to trust his or her choices. I don't want to say, 'No, I don't like this girl or that guy," when the director really loves them. No, you want to go with what the director likes.”
“Could the straggling thoughts of individuals be collected, they would frequently form materials for wise and able men to improve into useful matter.”
“I think that we have to do everything we can to work together, Democrats and Republicans, and then if we go the initiative route like we have done in the past, go together.”