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“Rest nurtures creativity, which nurtures activity. Activity nurtures rest, which sustains creativity. Each draws from and contributes to the other.”
“A man never knows exactly how the child of his brain will strike other people.”
“It's not a sign of creativity to have sixty-five ideas for one problem. It's just a waste of energy.”
“For a scientist must indeed be freely imaginative and yet skeptical, creative and yet a critic. There is a sense in which he must be free, but another in which his thought must be very precisely re...”
“Think of your passions as you do food, water, shelter...a necessity. If someone told you to give them up, would you listen?”
“An adversity is an opportunity to exercise and maximize your creativity.”
“Creativity comes from applying things you learn in other fields to the field you work in.”
“Gratitude is a way of creativity.”
“Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to e...”
“Very few managers know how to effectively tap the biggest source of performance improvement available to them: namely, the creativity and knowledge of the people who work for them.”
“Good" now is better than "Best" never.”
“If theres a single idea I emphasize when people ask about writing, its that theres no right way to produce a book. But I do think that whatever you do, you should do regularly, whether its waking u...”
“That's it! Stretch way beyond your perceived limitations..Go for yours like you own it already, because you truly do.”
“It is in everyone's interest that every person's creative genius be encouraged and allowed to develop and express.”
“Novel writing is World Building & Word Weaving (Neil Postman's terms).”
“Creativity is the ability to produce ideas that are both original and valuable.”
“When you cease to fear your solitude, a new creativity awakens in you. Your forgotten or neglected wealth begins to reveal itself. You come home to yourself and learn to rest within. Thoughts are o...”
“It is widely believed that interpersonal relationships of an intimate kind are the chief, if not the only, source of human happiness. Yet the lives of creative individuals often seem to run counter...”
“The greatest knowledge ever created is the one created when one is challenged or criticized by his/her subordinate. Creativity lies in challenges and criticisms .”
“It's a wonderful paradox: only when you have a changeless sense of who you are, can real changes take place. It is the ground of your absolute value and everything that is truly worthwhile.”
