"Looking at scenes of nature, for even a short while, can help us become more insightful, more creative, and more productive."

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Source : Maria Konnikova (2013). “Mastermind: How to Think Like Sherlock Holmes”, p.9, Canongate Books

Maria Konnikova

#Nature Quotes #Creative Quotes #Insightful Quotes

“I was trying to disturb the war.”
“I have always been interested in giving back, and I wouldn't want to know a life without giving.”
“I feel connected to every other creative element because I have a creative soul. My isolation is not through the work it's through not being able to connect with mediocrity. When I was younger I was a punk and then when I got married and had children I became a mother. They are the only two memberships to any clan-like cultures that I have ever embraced.”
“Men are not worried by things, but by their ideas about things. When we meet with difficulties, become anxious or troubled, let us not blame others, but rather ourselves. That is: our ideas about things.”
“Cash is the lifeblood of your business. There are very few things in business that will kill you, but running our of cash is one of those things. You can recover from almost any other mistake, but if you run out of cash you're dead.”
“My job is to take care of the possible and to trust God with the impossible.”
“You don't need to take a persons advice to make him feel good, just ask him for it.”
“The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.”

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