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FRANK's Components of Creativity
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A voice is a human gift; it should be cherished and used, to utter fully human speech as possible. Powerlessness and...
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Art should simplify. That is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form...
People may flatter themselves just as much by thinking that their faults are always present to other people's minds,...
The writer by nature of his profession is a dreamer and a conscious dreamer. He must imagine, and imagination takes...
I've always thought a hotel ought to offer optional small animals. . . . I mean a cat to sleep on your bed at night,...
II would advise any beginning writer to write the first drafts as if no one else will ever read them -- without a...
There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them...
You can't test courage cautiously.Source: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, ch. 6,...
He liked to observe emotions; they were like red lanterns strung along the dark unknown of another's personality,...
The thing that teases the mind over and over for years, and at last gets itself put down rightly on paper -- whether...
Every human being has, like Socrates, an attendant spirit; and wise are they who obey its signals. If it does not...
Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or...
The shell is America's most active contribution to the formation of character. A tough hide. Grow it...
Children should be taught not the little virtues but the great ones. Not thrift but generosity and an indifference to...
A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which...
A rattlesnake that doesn't bite teaches you nothing.Source: The Life I Really...
To me success means effectiveness in the world, that I am able to carry my ideas and values into the world -- that I...
Education is the transmission of civilization.Source: In Peter's Quotations, by...
When I only begin to read, I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high...
There is a world there, Winthrop, -- another sort of world -- where people know something; where other things are to...
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