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Creativity Quote by Bill McKibben

“We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.” quote by Bill McKibben — Download Open image

“We had other currencies that we could find work in - the currencies of movements: passion, spirit, creativity.”

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Oil companies are radical because they're willing to alter the chemical composition of the atmosphere.

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What makes us different? We're the creature that can decide not to do something that we are capable of doing.

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Most of the men and women who vote in Congress each year to continue subsidies have taken campaign donations from big energy companies.

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Everything that the administration has done has been counterproductive.

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The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does…

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That's the great secret of creativity. You treat ideas like cats: you make them follow you.

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“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as a whole…

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It’s so important to create in your own voice, to hold onto what makes you unique, and have faith in your vision.

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A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

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You don't get lucky. You create lucky.

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“You are the end of beauty and creativity one must have created so far.”

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Jonah Lehrer is one of the most talented explainers of science that we’ve got. What a pleasure it is to follow his investigation of…

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If you've got creativity, imagination, and intelligence, and you want to be hypnotised, then there's no reason you shouldn't be able to.

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“I believe in magic. As a writer, I create them on blank paper.”

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Creativity is like chasing chickens.

Christoph Niemann

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