"Access to talented and creative people is to modern business what access to coal and iron ore was to steel-making."

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Source : Richard Florida (2014). “The Rise of the Creative Class--Revisited: Revised and Expanded”, p.8, Basic Books

Richard Florida

#Creativity Quotes #Iron Quotes #People Quotes

“It happened that sometimes I kissed in mirrors the reflection of my face; since the hands, face and tears of Annalena had caressed it, my face seemed suffused to me divinely beautiful and as if suffused with heavenly sweetness.”
“Far too many people have no idea of what they can do because all they have been told is what they can't do. They don't know what they want because they don't know what's available for them.”
“My own experience is that once a story has been written, one has to cross out the beginning and the end. It is there that we authors do most of our lying.”
“If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].”

Source : Source: collider.com
“I didn't even write the lyrics down. I got in the booth, I put down a little guitar riff and the idea I had was it was going to be really simple, I just want it to be all about the lyrics and I just literally sang the lyrics.”
“It's a blast to watch. It's a lot more interesting live than it is on record. I mean, it really is a theatrical event. It's a sporting event! Cause you never know what's gonna happen.”
“Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.”

Source : Joseph Wood Krutch (1967). “And Even If You Do: Essays on Man, Manners & Machines”
“Who will bell the cat?”

Source : William Langland (1874). “The Vision of William Concerning Piers the Plowman”, p.101

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