"An almost indispensable skill for any creative person is the ability to pose the right questions. Creative people identify promising, exciting, and, most important, accessible routes to progress - and eventually formulate the questions correctly."

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Source : "Mozart, Newton and You?" by Lisa Randall, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 5, 2012.

Lisa Randall

#Skills Quotes #People Quotes #Creative Quotes

“And why do you think that foolishness is bad? If human foolishness had been as carefully nurtured and cultivated as intelligence has been for centuries, perhaps it would have turned into something extremely precious.”
“But you begin to feel as you go on working that unless painting proves its right to exist by being critical and self-judging, it has no reason to exist at all - or is not even possible. The canvas is a court where the artist is prosecutor, defendant, jury and judge. Art without a trial disappears at a glance.”

Source : Philip Guston, Clark Coolidge (2011). “Philip Guston: Collected Writings, Lectures, and Conversations”, p.53, Univ of California Press
“â€¦ Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right nowâ€¦”

Source : Song: Little Wonders
“I have two or three cars that I like, but today, Ferrari would be the best car I have driven in terms of being an impressive car.”
“I was a little nervous backstage. But I had this book, Gandhi. I just read his quotes, closed my eyes and focused my thoughts. Presently, this book is my prized possession.”
“All too often we think of community in terms of being with folks like ourselves: the same class, same race, same ethnicity, same social standing and the like..I think we need to be wary: we need to work against the danger of evoking something that we donâ€™t challenge ourselves to actually practice.”
“Damaging the enemy financially is fair game.”
“I'm a Christian. I want the world of justice and equality. This is the only way to achieve peace.”

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