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329 Physician Quotes

There can be no 'graduated exercises in drawing' leading up to an artistic creation. That goal can be attained only through the development of mechanical technique and through the freedom of the spirit.

Artistic Attained Creation Development
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If the ways of the Almighty are not humanly logical, it is not the fault of the Almighty but of the limitations of human logic.
Almighty Fault Human Limitations
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Dependence is not patriotism. A man does not love his mother if he hangs about her to the point of burdening her with a weak, feckless son.
About Dependence Does He
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A memory is what is left when something happens and does not completely unhappen.

Memory Left Happens Completely
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Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way.

Creativity Breaking Different way
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Sometimes the situation is only a problem because it is looked at in a certain way. Looked at in another way, the right course of action may be so obvious that the problem no longer exists.

Situation Problem Certain Exist
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We need creativity in order to break free from the temporary structures that have been set up by a particular sequence of experience.

Creativity Temporary Structures
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Most executives, many scientists, and almost all business school graduates believe that if you analyze data, this will give you new ideas. Unfortunately, this belief is totally wrong. The mind can only see what it is prepared to see.

Executives Scientist Business school Believe
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Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Mistakes Inadequacies Perception Logic
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Opportunity ideas do not lie around waiting to be discovered. Such ideas need to be produced.

Opportunity Lie Ideas Produced
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The purpose of science is not to analyze or describe but to make useful models of the world. A model is useful if it allows us to get use out of it.
Purpose Science Useful World
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Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

Argument Reveal Create
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One very important aspect of motivation is the willingness to stop and to look at things that no one else has bothered to look at. This simple process of focusing on things that are normally taken for granted is a powerful source of creativity.

Motivation Willingness Stop
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It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

Surprised Attention Philosophers Humor
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In the future, instead of striving to be right at a high cost, it will be more appropriate to be flexible and plural at a lower cost. If you cannot accurately predict the future then you must flexibly be prepared to deal with various possible futures.

Future Striving Flexible Plural
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If you wait for opportunities to occur, you will be one of the crowd.
Opportunities Occur Crowd
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Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

Complexity Inefficient Mental energy
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Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Humor Significant Activity Human brain
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The need to be right all the time is the biggest bar to new ideas.

Need Right Biggest Bar
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Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
Unhappiness Difference Talent Expectations
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To be successful you have to be lucky, or a little mad, or very talented, or find yourself in a rapid growth field.

Successful Mad Talent Rapid growth
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Many highly intelligent people are poor thinkers. Many people of average intelligence are skilled thinkers. The power of a car is separate from the way the car is driven.

Intelligent people Thinker Average Skilled
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Creative thinking - in terms of idea creativity - is not a mystical talent. It is a skill that can be practiced and nurtured.

Creative thinking Mystical Skill
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I think school is a place where thinking should be taught.
School Place Thinking Taught
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Teaching thinking for just five hours to unemployed youngsters increased employment 500 percent.

Teaching Unemployed youngsters
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I do a great deal of work with young children, and if you give a child a problem, he may come up with a highly original solution, because he doesn't have the established route to it.

Great deal Children Problem Original solution
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Humor is probably the most significant characteristics of the human mind. Far more significant than reason. In fact, reason is actually a very cheap commodity.

Humor Characteristic Human mind
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A painter may be looking at the world in a way which is very different from everyone else. If he's a craftsman, he can get other people to see the world through his eyes, and so he enlarges our vision, perception, and there's great value in that.

Painter World Craftsman People
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The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.

The sun Moon Stars Disappeared
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'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.

Charm Power Effect work Employing
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There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.

Nothing War Achieved Better
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All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.

Art Living Fine mingling Letting go
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Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
Pain Death Part of Life
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What we call 'morals' is simply blind obedience to words of command.

Call morals Simply blind Word Command
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It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.

Great men Truly obscene Dared
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Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Sex lies Life Never Learn
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Man lives by imagination.
Man Lives Imagination
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The greatest task before civilization at present is to make machines what they ought to be, the slaves, instead of the masters of men.

Greatest task Civilization Machines Slaves
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Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretense of keeping it alive.

Jealousy Dragon Slays love Alive
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Dancing is the loftiest, the most moving, the most beautiful of the arts, because it is no mere translation or abstraction from life; it is life itself.

Dancing Moving Most beautiful Arts
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All civilization has from time to time become a thin crust over a volcano of revolution

All civilization Time Volcano Revolution
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To be a leader of men one must turn one's back on men.

Leader Men Turn Back
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It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.

Been difficult Men Realize Life
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Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

Men Know themselves Longer fools Wisdom
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The Promised Land always lies on the other side of a Wilderness.

Promise land Always lies Wilderness
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Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.

Thinking Lower grades Comparable Paper money
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The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
Romantic Embrace Music Prayer
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The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.

Absence Flaw Beauty
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However well organized the foundations of life may be, life must always be full of risks.

Well organized Foundations Life Risk
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I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

Vague Feeling Musicians Fallen angel
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