"Saying "no" has more creative power than ideas, insights and talent combined."

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Source : Kevin Ashton (2015). “How To Fly A Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery”, p.67, Random House

Kevin Ashton

#Ideas Quotes #Creative Quotes #Saying No Quotes

“When I started, my teachers told me that I had to sing Mozart, Mozart, Mozart. I said, No, I want to sing all the other stuff. If you do not push yourself, you will stay the same. Maybe some singers are happy with that, but I have to move, I have to do something new always.”
“There can be no difference between same-sex couples and opposite-sex couples anywhere in the USA.”

Source : Source: www.slate.com
“The history of American patriotism is figuring out ways that we can work together to move forward and knit together the common government.”

Source : "Author Taylor Branch". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. March 22, 2013.
“Always take responsibility for your past. It is your only collateral in life. Unless you despise yourself now, you cannot despise yourself then. Everything you did is a part of the process that brought you here. All your past is as alive and real as your so-called 'present.'”

Source : Janet Morris (2011). “Tempus with His Right-Side Companion Niko”, p.173, Paradise Publishing
“If people in Indonesia look 'different', they are afraid. Racist insults fly if someone does not look like part of the majority. Indonesia is one of the most racist countries on earth, and it has proven it during several of the genocides that have taken place here. But there is no perception, no clue, and no understanding of what racism actually is. And there is zero self-criticism.”
“Property -- the more common it becomes the more holy it becomes.”
“The character of a people may be ruined by charity.”
“Try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.”

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