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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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“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. — Albert Einstein”
creativity
“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”
creativity
“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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“Wondering makes it quite acceptable not to know, precisely because it sets the stage for spontaneous discoveries. — Gabriele Lusser Rico”
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“Write what you know? No. Write what you can imagine. — Jerry Cleaver”
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“Write whatever comes to mind. Sooner or later you’ll stumble across a rich vein and you’re off and running. — Joe Vitale”
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“Your imagination, if it’s working properly, is a pretty amazing tool, and sometimes fact and imagination coincide. — Robin Hemley”
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“Your mind will play you a movie if you let it. — James Scott Bell”
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“You've developed your critical standards by evaluating the published work of professional writers. If you use those standards to judge your infant idea, you're comparing your untested inspiration to ideas that have developed into writing that has been polished and published. — Marshall J. Cook”
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“A man’s most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe. — Euripides, 485406 BC”
education
“A road twice traveled is never as long. — Rosalie Graham”
education
“Advice is like snow. The softer it falls, the longer it dwells upon, and the deeper it sinks into the mind. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge”
education
“As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more serious. — Albert Schweitzer”
education
“As with life, new information causes us to reevaluate the meaning and emotional weight of all that preceded it, and to see the future with fresh eyes. — Lisa Cron”
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“Before beginning, prepare carefully. — Cicero”
education
“Bloody noses are great teachers. — Joseph McKinney”
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“Confusion is confusing because we cannot readily see the discordant parts that comprise it. — Thomas Harris”
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“Do you know the difference between education and experience? Education is when you read the fine print. Experience is what you get when you don’t. — Pete Seeger”
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