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Edward de Bono

"Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way."

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Akiroq Brost

"I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil.I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow."

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Akiroq Brost

"Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It's time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love."

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Akiroq Brost

"Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context."

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"You know you're writing well when you're throwing good stuff into the wastebasket."

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"As I suspect is true of many who write for a living, as I write I think about all sorts of things. I don't necessarily write down what I'm thinking; it's just that as I write I think about things. As I write, I arrange my thoughts. And rewriting and revising takes my thinking down even deeper paths."

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Akiroq Brost

"The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable to say."

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"I like music," she said slowly, "because when I hear it, I . . . I lose myself within myself, if that makes any sense. I become empty and full all at once, and I can feel the whole earth roiling around me. When I play. I'm not . . . for once, I'm not destroying, I'm creating."

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Akiroq Brost

"Never to rush something I was creating, but instead let it come into being as if it had a soul of it's own."

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"A poet is someone who never forgets they were born naked."

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Akiroq Brost

"For art to exist, for any sort of aesthetic activity or perception to exist, a certain physiological precondition is indispensable: intoxication."

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"Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven."
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"The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas."
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"Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced."
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"The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it."
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"To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field."
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"In a sense, words are encyclopedias of ignorance because they freeze perceptions at one moment in history and then insist we continue to use these frozen perceptions when we should be doing better."
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"If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd."
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"One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity."
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"Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it."
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