"History can't give attention to what's been lost, hidden, or deliberately buried; it is mostly a telling of success, not the partial failures that enabled success."

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Source : Scott Berkun (2007). “The Myths of Innovation”, p.23, "O'Reilly Media, Inc."

Scott Berkun

#Creativity Quotes #Giving Quotes #Innovation Quotes

“Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”

Source : Ernest Bramah (2016). “ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more”, p.194, e-artnow
“These incidents of answered prayer are not more wonderful or more worthy of record than multitudes the world over could testify to, but they are written and sent out simply and only because I had to write them or disobey God.”

Source : Rosalind Goforth (2016). “How I Know God Answers Prayer”, p.4, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I try to gauge whether a girl likes me before I make a move. I would write a page-long note to a girl.If she wrote a whole page back, I knew she liked me, too. If she wrote back like two words, then I figured I'd move on.”
“A good fighter usually knows, to within a very few seconds, when a three-minute round is going to end.”
“The greatest talents have been frequently misapplied and have produced evil proportionate to the extent of their powers. Both reason and revelation seem to assure us that such minds will be condemned to eternal death, but while on earth, these vicious instruments performed their part in the great mass of impressions, by the disgust and abhorrence which they excited.”
“The trick, of course, is to lose one day and come back to win the next. But that is possible only when we draw healthy pleasure and confidence from our creative processes.”

Source : John H. Lienhard (2003). “The Engines of Our Ingenuity: An Engineer Looks at Technology and Culture”, p.198, Oxford University Press
“Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.”

Source : Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.66, Lulu.com
“I was always taught my do's and don'ts: For do's I did, and for don'ts, I said I won't.”

Source : Song: I Gotcha Back, Album: Liquid Swords

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