Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.
To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.
Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.
Imagination is more important than knowledge...
There is no expedient to which a man will not go to avoid the labor of thinking.
Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think about it.
How sweet to be a cloudFloating in the blue.
Pooh said good-bye affectionately to his fourteen pots of honey, and hoped they were fifteen; and he and Rabbit went out into the Forest.
"when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it."