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Frankisms
Short truths, collected over a lifetime of writing and teaching. Read a few, or lose an afternoon.
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“Thanks to the Interstate highway system, it is now possible to travel across the country coast to coast without seeing anything. — Charles Kuralt”
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“The act of creating can bring out the best in people, because it is the natural motivator. — Robert Fritz”
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“The best way to begin the creative process is with a blank sheet of paper. — Robert Fritz”
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“The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas. — Linus Pauling”
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“The best way to learn to create is by creating. — Robert Fritz”
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“The broader your emotional memory, the richer your material for inner creativeness. — Constantin Stanislavski”
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“The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. — C. G. Jung”
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“The greatest invention of the nineteenth century was the invention of the method of invention. — Alfred North Whitehead (1861-1947), Science and the Modern World, 6”
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“The imagination is maybe the least developed faculty in adults. We let other people do our imagining for us. — Eugene Peterson, Author of The Message”
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“The impossible is often the untried. — Jim Goodwin”
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“The man who has no imagination has no wings. — Muhammad Ali”
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“The moment a person forms a theory, his imagination sees in every object only the traits that favor that theory. — Andrew Jackson”
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“The more the marble wastes, the more the statue grows. — Michelangelo (14761564), Sonnet”
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“The more you create, the more you are able to create. — Robert Fritz”
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“The more you write, the more you naturally generate ideas. — Robin Hemley”
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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. — Albert Einstein”
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“The most effortful forms of slow thinking are those that require you to think fast. — Daniel Kahneman”
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“The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all. — Julia Cameron”
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“The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible. — Arthur C. Clarke”
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“The past can only be found in the present when it comes alive in you. — Natalie Goldberg”
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“The soul without imagination is what an observatory would be without a telescope. — Henry Ward Beecher”
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“The subconscious is endlessly creative and full of great ideas. — Jerry Cleaver”
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“The world will always produce more great ideas than any single individual, even the most creative one. — Chip Heath”
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“There is a simple way to package information that, under the right circumstances, can make it irresistible. All you have to do is find it. — Malcolm Gladwell”
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“There is nothing wrong with nothing! Most of us have not been trained to appreciate empty spaces, silence, formlessness, and voids. — Robert Fritz”
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“There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow. — Alfred Mercier”
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“There’s nothing wrong with stealing other people’s ideas. And anyone who doesn’t is presumptuous. Because there simply aren’t that many new ideas. You simply take something used somewhere else and adopt it for your own use. — Bill Veeck”
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“Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it. — Henry Ford”
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“Through clustering we naturally come up with a multitude of choices from a part of our mind where the experiences of a lifetime mill and mingle. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”
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“To have a high IQ, you tend to specialize, think deep thoughts. You avoid trivia. — Christopher Langan, tested with an IQ of 195”
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“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong. — Joseph Chilton Pearce”
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“Unlike grownups, children have little need to deceive themselves. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 17491834”
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“We are surrounded by images of everyday experience. Only when we really open the mind’s eye to see what is unusual about one of these—seeing it as if for the first time—can we write about it in such a way that we and the reader perceive it as an illumination, a small epiphany, a new awareness of what life is all about. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”
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“We constantly need to infuse our story with new thinking, new energy. — Jim Loehr”
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“We must accept that this creative pulse within us is God’s creative pulse itself. — Joseph Chilton Pearce”
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“What we are familiar with we cease to see. — Anaïs Nin”
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“What you write should be original as far as you know. Creative writing means not using what you’ve seen others write, but being original in every sentence you write. — James Thom”
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“When I examine myself and my methods of thought, I come to the conclusion that the gift of fantasy has meant more to me than my talent for absorbing positive knowledge. — Albert Einstein”
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“When I was younger, I could remember anything, whether it had happened or not. — Mark Twain”
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“Whenever we change, we step out a little into the unknown. — Charles Handy”
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