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“Some of the most thrilling things in life are done on impulse.”
― The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
― The Missing Manuscript of Jane Austen
“Being spontaneous is being able to respond with confidence; calmly trusting that, whatever the outcome, you will have a positive if challenging experience that will lead to greater self-awareness and success.”
― Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
― Trusting Your Intuition: Rediscover Your True Self to Achieve a Richer, More Rewarding Life
“In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action.”
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
― Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
“To like many people spontaneously and without effort is perhaps the greatest of all sources of personal happiness.”
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“Creativity is paradoxical. To create, a person must have knowledge but forget the knowledge, must see unexpected connections in things but not have a mental disorder, must work hard but spend time doing nothing as information incubates, must create many ideas yet most of them are useless, must look at the same thing as everyone else, yet see something different, must desire success but embrace failure, must be persistent but not stubborn, and must listen to experts but know how to disregard them."
[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
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[Twelve Things You Were Not Taught in School About Creative Thinking (The Creativity Post, December 6, 2011)]”
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