"Creativity can never be explained by appeal to reason alone. Like the birth of a child, creativity compels us not to explanation but to wonder and awe."

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Source : George E. Vaillant (1995). “The Wisdom of the Ego”, p.230, Harvard University Press

George Vaillant

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“Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.”

Source : Desmond Morris (1987). “Cat Watching”, Crown Pub
“A compliment would be the last thing out of my mouth to a man who was so pigheaded that he could be served at a luau.”
“Maybe I didn't go to the sexy football school, but I paved my way.”
“When I'm playing my best, like I was at the U.S. Open, I feel on top of the match and able to do exactly what I want. There are other times when you're not in control, but that is tennis and you have momentum changes in every single match.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“When you think of everything in terms of just money, then almost nothing is enough. I mean, how much money is enough? Because it's hard to translate money into goods. And I think people, once, I think there's a lot things can believe, and once they start thinking about wealth in terms of money, they lose the idea of enough-ness.”
“I don't like showing the technique. I don't like people who say, "Here, I'm going to act, but first I have to bounce off this wall." If you have to bounce off the wall, do it by yourself. Don't feature the technique. My old drama coach used to say, "Don't just do something, stand there." Gary Cooper wasn't afraid to do nothing.”
“The essence in obedience consists in the fact that a person comes to view himself as an instrument for carrying out another person's wishes and he therefore no longer regards himself as responsible for his actions.”
“For more and more of us, home has less to do with a piece of soil than a piece of soul.”

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