"It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often simple patience."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, (p. 443), 1895.

Horace Bushnell

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“Whatever creative success I gained was due to my belief that creative power can be stepped up by effort, and that there are ways in which we can guide our creative thinking.”

Source : Alex Faickney Osborn (1948). “Your Creative Power: How to Use Imagination”
“Acting is something that I always wanted, but I never paid attention to the notion that it might actually work out. You have all sorts of ideas about what you want to do - at one stage, I wanted to be a jockey - but this is the one that's a big deal.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“What was life worth, anyway, if you had to sit around remembering not to mention this, that, and the other thing because someone else might be upset?”

Source : Fritz Leiber (2014). “Conjure Wife”, p.90, Open Road Media
“What hasty preparations we make for our future. Think of it: it seems almost tragic, the things we're sure we ought to bring along. We pack too heavy with what we hope we'll use, and too light of what we must. We thus go forth misladen, ill equipped for the dawn.”

Source : Chang-rae Lee (2014). “On Such a Full Sea: A Novel”, p.212, Penguin
“This Grave contains all that was Mortal of a Young English Poet Who on his Death Bed in the Bitterness of his Heart at the Malicious Power of his Enemies Desired these words to be engraved on his Tomb Stone "Here lies One Whose Name was writ in Water."”
“The search for a meaningful painting subject is a search for ourselves.”
“There's a big difference between the Arabic and Western scales. One uses quarter tone system and one doesn't. So in order for me to compose real Arabic scale melodies, I would need an Arabic keyboard, and I don't have one. So I had to compose Arabesque melodies.”
“I can change. I can live out of my imagination instead of my memory. I can tie myself to my limitless potential instead of my limiting past”

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