"In skydiving, it is the fear response that gradually weakens. During the precipitous descent, the amply tested parachutist can savor the thrill rather than endure the panic."

-- Dean Keith Simonton

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“The reason for you complaint lies, it seems to me, in the constraint which your intellect imposes upon your imagination. Here I will make an observation, and illustrate it by an allegory. Apparently, it is not good-and indeed it hinders the creative work of the mind-if the if the intellect examines too closely the ideas pouring in, as it were, at the gates.”
“By the fourth grade, I graduated to an erector set and spent many happy hours constructing devices of unknown purpose where the main design criterion was to maximize the number of moving parts and overall size.”
“I paint for the sheer joy of painting. I have never sold any of my paintings. I'd rather give them to people for free.”

Source : "Art beat: Takeshi Kitano takes over Paris" by Takeshi Kitano, www.theguardian.com. March 16, 2010.
“The good thing about being gay was always that you didn't have a wedding. People would say, "He's gay, but at least he didn't make us go to his wedding. He didn't make us fly across the country. He didn't make us choose between the fish and the beef."”
“Even the saddest things can become, once we have made peace with them, a source of wisdom and strength.”
“There's only so much room in one heart. You can fill it up with love or you can fill it with resentment. But every bit of resentment you hold takes space away from the love. And the resentment don't do no good noway, but look what love can do.”
“I'm not a princess anyway so I find that quite weird to be labelled as one.”
“When you've got the money, you spend it. When you've spent it all, let someone else get going and spend theirs.”

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