“If you're waiting to have good ideas before you have any ideas, you won't have many ideas.”
David Allen book Getting Things Done
Source: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity (2001), Ch. 3
“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.”
As quoted by Francis Crick in his presentation "The Impact of Linus Pauling on Molecular Biology" http://oregonstate.edu/dept/Special_Collections/subpages/ahp/1995symposium/crick.html (1995). <br class="br">1990s
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