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"A good idea will keep you awake during the morning, but a great idea will keep you awake during the night."
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"Imagination is the creative force that through necessity yields solutions to resolve the issues that face us."
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"The Revolution introduced me to art, and in turn, art introduced me to the Revolution!"
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"For me, I used to be shy towards journalism because it wasn't poetry. And then I realized that the events that I covered in essays that became journalism were actually great because they inspired me, and they became my muse."
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"No matter how much enthusiasm and effort you put into writing, if you totally lack literary talent you can forget about being a novelist."
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"A writer cannot serve today those who make history, he must serve those who are subject to it."
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"I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it."
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"But the detail of the poem shows power akin to genius, and reveals to us that much neglected law of literary history -- that potential genius can never become actual unless it finds or makes the Form which it requires."
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"My dear Copperfield, he replied. "To a man possessed of the higher imaginative powers, the objection to legal studies is the amount of detail which they involve. Even in our professional correspondence, said Mr. Micawber, glancing at some letters he was writing, "the mind is not at liberty to soar to any exalted form of expression. Still, it is a great pursuit! A great pursuit!"
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"The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal that you can gather votes like box tops is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process."
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"And what, you ask, does writing teach us? First and foremost, it reminds us that we are alive and that it is a gift and a privilege, not a right."
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"People who work crossword puzzles know that if they stop making progress, they should put the puzzle down for a while."
Work
"No one would choose to be jerked randomly off task again and again until you have half a dozen things you're trying to get done, all at the same time."
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"Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument."
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"Skill is successfully walking a tightrope between the twin towers of New York's World Trade Center. Intelligence is not trying."
Intelligence
"Play more than one game at a time. This is a painless way to learn how to do many things at once."
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"Make a habit of canceling every subscription to anything you don't have time to read."
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"Know the difference between principles based on right or wrong vs. principles based on personal gain, and consider the basis of your own principles."
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"Experts say you can't concentrate on more than one task at a time."
Time
"Be able to keep a secret or promise when you know in your heart that it is the right thing to do."
Heart
"I would not encourage children or teens to multitask because we don't know where those efforts may lead."
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