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Why should we all use our creative power....? Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate,…
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It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.
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Advertising companies hire the very brightest, wittiest young people to write for them. Not one single sentence of it is worth repeating.…
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Be bold, free, and truthful.
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In true courage there is always an element of choice, of an ethical choice, and of anguish, and also of action and…
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We are always afraid to start something that we want to make very good, true, and serious.
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It is only by expressing all that is inside that purer and purer streams come.
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Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. When we really listen to people there is an alternating current, and…
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Know that it is good to work. Work with love, and think of liking it when you do it. It is easy…
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Now before going to a party, I just tell myself to listen with affection to anyone who talks to me... to try…
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I want to write about the great and powerful thing that listening is. And how we forget it. And how we don't…
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Creative listeners are those who want you to be recklessly yourself, even at your very worst, even vituperative, bad-tempered. They are laughing…
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