"The essence of creativity is figuring out how to use what you already know in order to go beyond what you already think."

-- Jerome Bruner

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“I've heard people on panels say, 'You must have a Web site. You need to tweet. Repeat the title of your book constantly,' and I just want to say, 'Shut up. Everything you're saying is wrong.' People will know instantly if your only motivation for tweeting is to sell books.”
“It requires real strength to love Man. And to love him despite all invitations to do otherwise, all provocations and all reasons why one should not.”
“One night I dreamed I was running. When I woke up I forgot I had a limp, so I walked totally normal until I remembered, 'oh, yeah, I have a limp'. Then I immediately stumbled. That showed me that if you have control over your mind, you can do anything.”
“Thus does a 'necessary evil' become an idol. Maybe we're stuck with it. But do we have to worship it?”
“If there is anything good about nobility it is that it enforces the necessity of avoiding degeneracy.”
“Until you have kids, you can't imagine how much you could possibly love a human being.”
“I learned long ago to never be disappointed by people. Especially politicians.”

Source : Chuck Pfarrer (2011). “SEAL Target Geronimo: The Inside Story of the Mission to Kill Osama bin Laden”, p.238, Macmillan
“In many tribal cultures, it was said that if the boys were not initiated into manhood, if they were not shaped by the skills and love of elders, then they would destroy the culture. If the fires that innately burn inside youths are not intentionally and lovingly added to the hearth of community, they will burn down the structures of culture, just to feel the warmth.”

Source : Michael Meade (1993). “Men and the water of life: initiation and the tempering of men”, Harpercollins

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