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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A discussion should be a genuine attempt to explore a subject rather than a battle between competing egos.
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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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If you never change your mind, why have one?
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The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.
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It’s always amazed me how little attention philosophers, psychologists, or anyone else actually has paid to humor.
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It is better to have enough ideas for some of them to be wrong, than to be always right by having no ideas at all.
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Man owes his success to his creativity. No one doubts the need for it. It is most useful in good times and essential in bad.
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.
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Creativity can be learned like basketball, which does not mean we will all be NBA stars.
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You can analyse the past, but you have to design the future.
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A good listener is very nearly as attractive as a good talker. You cannot have a beautiful mind if you do not know how to listen.
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I’m tired of dreaming. I’m into doing at the moment. It’s, like, let’s only have goals that we can go after.
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There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns.
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It is historical continuity that maintains most assumptions, not repeated assessment of their validity.
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You hold onto religion, you know, rules, regulations, traditions. I think what God is interested in is people’s hearts, and that’s hard enough.
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In the art world, creativity involves aesthetic sensibility, emotional resonance and a gift for expression.
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