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Dee Hock

"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."

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Amber Hurdle

"You've got to make an effort to get the details right, because even through someone picks it up and knows it's a novel, they know someone's made it up and they know it's not real, if you make a small mistake they will cease to imaginatively engage with the story."

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Amber Hurdle

"I decided to coin the term 'cosy crime noir' for Brighton Belle. That is 'cosy crime' for today's sensibilities because there is that slightly edgy element to it."

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Amber Hurdle

"What makes people tick? Life can be a trap of ennui, but imagery may be a redemptive escape from dullness. The iconic power and exuberance of images generate an inexorable addiction that needs to be gratified without respite. Here and now! ['Give me more images']"

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Amber Hurdle

"Authors always carry a means for scribbling and an excuse for pausing, often inopportunely, to record those fleeting sparks of creative fancy that might otherwise vanish like a wisp in the wind if ignored. Writing is a jealous and needy lover."

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Amber Hurdle

"Some people have a handful of ideas, but not enough time to realize them."

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Amber Hurdle

"I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh."

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Amber Hurdle

"Do you know I get such a passion for reading sometimes its like the other passion -writing- only the wrong side of the carpet."

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Amber Hurdle

"As for my next book, I won't write it till it has grown heavy in my mind like a ripe pear; pendant, gravid, asking to be cut or it will fall."

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Amber Hurdle

"Genius in truth means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way."

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Amber Hurdle

"When ideas evaporate, when shapes fade and forms lose their integrity, our imagination can create an outlandish setting and convert everything into a hazy, misty Turner landscape. ['Back garden of a dream']"

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Dee Hock
"It is essential to employ, trust, and reward those whose perspective, ability, and judgment are radically different from yours. It is also rare, for it requires uncommon humility, tolerance, and wisdom."

Wisdom

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Dee Hock
"Make an empty space in any corner of your mind, and creativity will instantly fill it."

Creativity

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Dee Hock
"Clean out a corner of your mind and creativity will instantly fill it."

Creativity

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Dee Hock
"The closest thing to a law of nature in business is that form has an affinity for expense, while substance has an affinity for income."

Business

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Dee Hock
"An organization, no matter how well designed, is only as good as the people who live and work in it."

Work

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Dee Hock
"An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take all your traditional beliefs about organizations, and apply them to the neurons in your brain?"

People

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Dee Hock
"With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse."

Time

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"The prudent course is to make an investment in learning, testing and understanding, determine how the new concepts compare to how you now operate and thoughtfully determine how they apply to what you want to achieve in the future."

Future

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"Experience is easy to provide and quickly put to good use by people with all the other qualities."

Experience

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"What will become compellingly important is absolute clarity of shared purpose and set of principles of conduct sort of institutional genetic code that every member of the organization understands in a common way, and with deep conviction."

Purpose

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