Henry David Thoreau Quotes About Creativity
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We fritter away our energy and creativity . . . we get bogged down in the thick of thin things.
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In the midst of this chopping sea of civilized life, such are the clouds and storms and quicksands and thousand-and-one items to be allowed for, that a man has to live, if he would not founder and go to the bottom and not make his port at all, by dead reckoning, and he must be a great calculator indeed who succeeds. Simplify, simplify.
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Write while the heat is in you. The writer who postpones the recording of his thoughts uses an iron which has cooled to burn a hole with. He cannot inflame the minds of his audience.
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It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination
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This world is but a canvas to our imagination.
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There is an incessant influx of novelty into the world, and yet we tolerate incredible dullness.
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It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
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