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The germ of an idea doesn't make the sculpture that stands up... so the next stage is hard work

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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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For an Apple is in it self a little Universe; the Seed, hotter than the other parts thereof, is its Sun, which… — Cyrano de Bergerac
The distinguishing of the strata, or layers, in the embryonic membrane was a turning-point in the study of the history of evolution,… — Karl Ernst von Baer
Every germ of goodness will at last struggle into bloom and fruitage...true success follows every right step. — Orison Swett Marden
... suicide gets in the air sometimes. Like a cold germ. — Stephen King
True goodness is not without that germ of greatness that can bear with patience the mistakes of the ignorant. — Charles Caleb Colton
Man is a little germ that lives on an unimportant rock ball that revolves about a small star at the outskirts of… — Alan Watts
Of all the enemies to public liberty, war is perhaps the most to be dreaded, because it comprises and develops the germ… — James Madison
Very well, then, where do we arrive? Where do we arrive with our respect, our homage, our filial affection? At Adam! At… — Mark Twain
The mighty steam-engine has its germ in the simple boiler in which the peasant prepares his food. The huge ship is but… — Unknown Author
The primitive history of the species is all the more fully retained in its germ-history in proportion as the series of embryonic… — Unknown Author
In the germ, when the first trace of life begins to stir, music is the nurse of the soul; it murmurs in… — Unknown Author
At the bottom of every leaf-stem is a cradle, and in it is an infant germ; the winds will rock it, the… — Henry Ward Beecher

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