Wendy Oldfield famous quotes

Nothing will destroy creativity thought faster than judging the value of the idea on the spot.
-- Wendy Oldfield

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I think it's time to stop carping on the blunders of the President and give him some credit for creativity. I mean, where do you even FIND a Jewish hard-line conservative Republican pot-smoker? Sounds like an Oprah Winfrey guest.

Arthur V. Berger commenting on the music of Aaron Copland: Here is at last an American that we may place unapologetically beside the great recognized creative figures of any other country.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

Apparently one impression we are making... is that creativeness consists of lightning striking you on the head in one great glorious moment.

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

I said, ‘There’s one idea I’ve been carrying in my hip pocket for 35 years. It’s Woodrow Wilson.’

A master of improvised speech and improvised policies.

Justice should be cheap but judges expensive.

Because it is a national landmark, there is only one way to judge the Kennedy Center - against the established standard of progressive and innovative excellence in architectural design that this country is known and admired for internationally. Unfortunately, the Kennedy Center not only does not achieve this standard of innovative excellence; it also did not seek it. The architect opted for something ambiguously called 'timelessness' and produced meaninglessness. It is to the Washington manner born. Too bad, since there is so much of it.