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• For better or worse, our future will be determined in large part by our dreams and by the struggle to make them…
• Even without success, creative persons find joy in a job well done. Learning for its own sake is rewarding.
• The best moments in our lives are not the passive, receptive, relaxing times...the best moments usually occur when a person's body or…
• What I "discovered" was that happiness is not something that happens. It is not the result of good fortune or random chance.…
• Studying creativity is not an elite distraction, but provides one of the most exciting models for living.
• Creative individuals tend to be smart, yet also naive at the same time... Creative individuals have a combination of playfulness and discipline,…
• Creativity is a central source of meaning in our lives...most of the things that are interesting, important, and human are the results…
• It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or…
• Sir John Templeton: "My ethical principle in the first place was: 'Where could I use my talents that God gave me to…
• Many business leaders today view their jobs as entailing responsibility for the welfare of the wider community. These individuals do not define…
• The foremost reason that happiness is so hard to achieve is that the universe was not designed with the comfort of human…
• The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

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