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    Henri Matisse
    “Creativity takes courage. ”
    ― Henri Matisse
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    Scott Adams
    “Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
    ― Scott Adams
    tags: creativity
    620 likes

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    Maya Angelou
    “You can't use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: creativity
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    Sylvia Plath
    “The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
    tags: creativity, self-confidence, self-doubt
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    Hugh MacLeod
    “Everyone is born creative; everyone is given a box of crayons in kindergarten. Then when you hit puberty they take the crayons away and replace them with dry, uninspiring books on algebra, history, etc. Being suddenly hit years later with the 'creative bug' is just a wee voice telling you, 'I'd like my crayons back, please.”
    ― Hugh MacLeod, Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity
    tags: advice, art, crayons, creativity, humor, writing
    387 likes

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    Chuck Palahniuk
    “It's easy to attack and destroy an act of creation. It's a lot more difficult to perform one.”
    ― Chuck Palahniuk
    tags: art, creation, creativity, criticism
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    Twyla Tharp
    “Creativity is an act of defiance.”
    ― Twyla Tharp
    tags: art, creativity
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  • #8
    Albert Einstein
    “The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.”
    ― Albert Einstein
    tags: creativity
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  • #9
    Deepak Chopra
    “What keeps life fascinating is the constant creativity of the soul.”
    ― Deepak Chopra, Life After Death: The Burden of Proof
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    Joseph Chilton Pearce
    “To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
    ― Joseph Chilton Pearce
    tags: courage, creativity, inaction, just-do-it
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    Ken Robinson
    “Creativity is as important as literacy”
    ― Ken Robinson
    tags: creativity, ken-robinson, school-system, ted-talks
    230 likes

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  • #12
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: humor, travel
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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
    tags: tourism, travel
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    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    ― Henry Miller
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  • #17
    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “There are no foreign lands. It is the traveler only who is foreign.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, The Silverado Squatters
    tags: foreigners, openmindedness, travel
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    Jim Hinckley
    “It is better to fill your head with useless knowledge than no knowledge at all.”
    ― Jim Hinckley, Route 66 Backroads: Your Guide to Scenic Side Trips & Adventures from the Mother Road
    tags: history, inspirational, travel
    82 likes

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    Kirsten Hubbard
    “You can't control the past, but you can control where you go next.”
    ― Kirsten Hubbard, Wanderlove
    tags: inspirational, kirsten-hubbard, travel, wanderlove
    135 likes

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  • #20
    “It is not the destination where you end up but the mishaps and memories you create along the way!”
    ― Penelope Riley, Travel Absurdities
    tags: humor, mishaps, travel
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    David Sedaris
    “People are often frightened of Parisians, but an American in Paris will find no harsher critic than another American.”
    ― David Sedaris, Me Talk Pretty One Day
    tags: travel
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  • #22
    “The journey is the destination.”
    ― Dan Eldon
    tags: adventure, tourism, travel
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    Ira Levin
    “Anyone who needs more than one suitcase is a tourist, not a traveler”
    ― Ira Levin, Rosemary’s Baby
    tags: suitcases, tourist, travel, traveler
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    G.K. Chesterton
    “London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation.”
    ― G. K. Chesterson
    tags: london, paris, travel
    154 likes

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    Sarah Glidden
    “One thing that I love about traveling is feeling disoriented and removed from my comfort zone.”
    ― Sarah Glidden, How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less
    tags: travel
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    Angela Carter
    “Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
    ― Angela Carter
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    Thomas Jefferson
    “There exists indeed an opposition to it [building of UVA, Jefferson's secular college] by the friends of William and Mary, which is not strong. The most restive is that of the priests of the different religious sects, who dread the advance of science as witches do the approach of day-light; and scowl on it the fatal harbinger announcing the subversion of the duperies on which they live. In this the Presbyterian clergy take the lead. The tocsin is sounded in all their pulpits, and the first alarm denounced is against the particular creed of Doctr. Cooper; and as impudently denounced as if they really knew what it is.

    [Letter to José Francesco Corrê a Da Serra - Monticello, April 11, 1820]”
    ― Thomas Jefferson, Letters of Thomas Jefferson
    tags: clergy, creed, dread, duperies, fatal-harbinger, opposition, presbyterian, priests, pulpit, religious-sects, science, science-vs-religion, university-of-virginia, william-and-mary, witches
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    Nora Ephron
    “I look out the window and I see the lights and the skyline and the people on the street rushing around looking for action, love, and the world's greatest chocolate chip cookie, and my heart does a little dance.”
    ― Nora Ephron, Heartburn
    tags: new-york-city
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    John Updike
    “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
    ― John Updike
    tags: humor, new-york-city
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    George Carlin
    “Of course, in Los Angeles, everything is based on driving, even the killings. In New York, most people don't have cars, so if you want to kill a person, you have to take the subway to their house. And sometimes on the way, the train is delayed and you get impatient, so you have to kill someone on the subway. That's why there are so many subway murders; no one has a car.”
    ― George Carlin, Brain Droppings
    tags: driving, humor, killing, los-angeles, new-york-city, subways
    98 likes



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