"The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought."

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Source : Calvin Walker Taylor, Frank Barron (1963). “Research Conference on the Identification of Creative Scientific Talent”

Frank Barron

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“I think to be honest, that being is inside. I meet that being in so many people that I meet everywhere in the world and when I do meet that being, in other people, what I want to ask is "How do we keep opening ourselves so that we can become as vulnerable and as willing to live in the deepest complexity and ambiguity and truth that we can?"”
“I'm not reclusive. I'm out and about.”
“I always thought my questions were wrong questions because no one else asked them. Maybe no one thought of them. Maybe darkness got there first. Maybe I am the first light touching a gulf of ignorance... Maybe my questions matter.”

Source : Elizabeth Moon (2003). “The Speed of Dark”
“Tell me if the lovers are losers... tell me if any get more than the lovers.”
“My encounter with another world and another culture and the beginnings of an attachment to them had set up an irritation, barely perceptible but incurable-rather like unrequited love, like a symptom of the hopelessness of trying to grasp what is boundless, or unite what cannot be joined; a reminder of how finite, how curtailed, our experience on earth must be”
“Make enough mole hills, and eventually you will build a mountain.”
“Progress comes from caring more about what needs to be done than about who gets the credit”
“The image you project, in many circumstances, is far more valuable than your skills or your record of past accomplishments.”

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