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"Yes, influences are enriching, and they can be found in every work of art, even the most original."
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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

"We are so used to working that not working is the new hard work."

"And yet, troublingly, there is one difference between 'labour' and other elements [raw materials, machinery] which conventional economics does not have a means to represent, or give weight to, but which is nevertheless unavoidably present in the world: the fact that labour feels pain."

"A salary is a tax employers pay, every four weeks, for putting an employee's dream on hold."

"Work is a vehicle with which man chases some fleeting destination called a full tummy."

"A specialist's mind is a slave to his specialization."

"12% of employees eat because they are hungry. 88% of employees eat because it is 1 o'clock."

"I can deal with people who watch me on stage but I am not good in communicating with people any other way than through my work."

"Give a typical employee a million, and, he is most likely to use the money to print his CV on fancier paper."
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"Mozart wrote so many works in his thirty-five years that it would take a lifetime just to write out the notes. We literally do not know how he did it."

"To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered."

"I don't dare postulate about science, but I know that it takes both emotion and intellect in order for art to happen."

"There is another interesting paradox here: by immersing ourselves in what we love, we find ourselves. We do not lose ourselves. One does not lose one's identity by falling in love."

"Since age seven, I've been composing and have never stopped composing, yet, the creative process is as elusive to me as it has ever been."

"The creative act is like writing a letter. A letter is a project; you don't sit down to write a letter unless you know what you want to say and to whom you want to say it."

"Most people think an artist tries to be original, but originality is the last thing that develops in the artist."
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