New associations and fresh ideas are more likely to come out of a varied store of memories and experience than out of a collection that is all of one kind.
— Insight into combinatorial creativity circa 1957. (via explore-blog)
…there is power in identity. When we create the right kind of identity, we can say things to the world around us that they don’t actually believe makes sense - we can get them to do things that they don’t think they can do.
— Bryan Stevenson, during his speech, “We need to talk about an injustice,” at TED Conference 2012 (via changewecreate)
