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“You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish...”
“If you're a writer, the problem is that, when you try to call a halt to thinking about your novel-in-progress, your imagination still keeps going; you can't shut it off.”
“The framing of a problem is often far more essential than its solution”
“Zombies are familiar characters in philosophical thought experiments. They are like people in every way except they have no internal experience.... If there are enough zombies recruited into our wo...”
“Creativity is the ability to introduce order into the randomness of nature.”
“Everyone worked day and night, Monday through Saturday. Oppenheimer insisted people take Sundays off to rest and recharge. Scientists fished for trout in nearby streams, or climbed mountains and di...”
“after life has broken you open, perhaps you may create art”
“...the imagination works not so much through inspiration as through perseverance. One must slog through the false starts, spot the wrong words and hold out for the right ones, and above all, be vig...”
“Burn the book. It serves you once.Read the book. Serves you for a lifetime.Lend the book. It serves for generations to come.”
“Never regret losing time on reading good books”
“I am no longer scared to close my eyes and to imagine.”
“I see a creative process as a necessarily thievish undertaking. Dig beneath a beautiful piece of writing, Monsieur Boustouler, and you will find all manner of dishonor. Creating means vandalizing t...”
“Society's goal is to make us less foolish. From the cradle to grave the pressure is on: "Be normal!" Our inner fool may be shackled and caged by a world made to suppress it, but Jesus came to free ...”
“A very serious mental disorder is associated with creativity, a disorder that afflicts only the great souls, and its cure is not known, even to the great souls.”
“It takes courage to be creative. Just as soon as you have an idea, you become a minority of one.”
“Unless social sciences can be as creative as natural science, our new tools are not likely to be of much use to us.”
“Discovery's friend is creativity”
“Who cares for Algebra?Who delights in solving math?I only want to live my lifeAlong the creative path.”
“The novelist defines the story with the following example: If you are told that the king died and then the queen died, that is a sequence of events. If you were told that the king died and then the...”
“Creativity is imagining something that isn't there and making it real.”
