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“Pure mathematicians just love to try unsolved problems - they love a challenge.”
Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". "The Proof", episode of "NOVA", www.pbs.org. November 01, 2000. 
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“Working on our own consciousness is the most important thing that we are doing at any moment, and being love is a supreme creative act.”
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“Instead, over the past thirty years, in the world of action and adventure sports, in situations where ***** really were on the line, the bounds of the possible have been pushed further and faster than ever before in history. We've seen near-exponential growth in ultimate human performance, which is both hyperbolic paradox and considerable mystery. Somehow, a generation's worth of iconoclastic misfits have rewritten the rules of the feasible, not just raising the bar but often obliterating it altogether. And this brings up one final question: Where-if anywhere-do our actual limits lie?”
Source : Steven Kotler (2014). “The Rise of Superman: Decoding the Science of Ultimate Human Performance”, p.18, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“I monitor my self-talk, making sure that it is uplifting and supportive of myself and others.”
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“The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.”
Source : Calvin Walker Taylor, Frank Barron (1963). “Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent”
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“Any problem can be solved using the materials in the room.”
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“I had to paint the picture that I was never scared, otherwise I couldn't do my job. But now, as an actor, I'm literally paid to look emotionally accessible.”
Source : Source: www.avclub.com
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“Hip-Hop is diverse. But the white, capitalist producers and distributors of Hip-Hop are most interested in the Hip-Hip that is misogynist, that is Black-hating, that is pugilistic, that is to say all about fighting and war and killing and gangsterism.”
