"As I do not live in an age when rustling black skirts billow about me, and I do not carry an ebony stick to strike the floor in sharp rebuke, as this is denied me, I rap out a sentence in my note book and feel better. If a grandmother wants to put her foot down, the only safe place to do it these days is in a note book."

-- Florida Scott-Maxwell

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“Creativity comes from looking for the unexpected and stepping outside your own experience.”

Source : "The Corporate Board", Vol. 13, published by Vanguard Publications, p. 30, 1992.
“I don't like theorizing about my work myself, but that's not to say I have no interest in theory. Other people are free to say what they want about my work.”
“What happened in the United changing room has happened to me 50 times in my career. I have kicked bottles of mineral water, bags and shoes but I never hit a player. It's a question of technique, and the Scots must have a better technique.”
“The easiest, the most tempting, and the least creative response to conflict within an organization is to pretend it does not exist.”
“I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.”

Source : Obituary by Margaret Busby, www.theguardian.com. December 07, 2000.
“One of the great challenges you will face is that a part of the world, and some in it, do not have or do not believe in a standard of moral values. Many in the world today operate on the basis of practical expediency. You have undoubtedly observed this yourselves. It has become a philosophy of life for many. This is true among nations as well as among individuals.”
“When you are too specific on a target, it can drain you. Ask me where I will be when I am 60, and I will have no answer to give.”
“Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in each of us. Because we are smart and creative, we imagine all the things that could happen, that might happen, that will happen if this or that happens. See what I mean?”

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