Jonah Lehrer Quotes

What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

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• When you've done a show that's as successful as 'Lovejoy' was, it hangs around for a few years, and people know you from it. I escaped the shadow when I stopped 'Lovejoy' by not doing any television for four years.

  

  Ian McShane
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• The characters are always the focal point of a book for me, whether I'm writing or reading. I may enjoy a book that has an intriguing mystery or a good plot, but to become one of my real favorites, it has to have great characters.

  

  Candace Camp
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• I want to toy around with producing a Broadway show.

  

  Lance Bass NSYNC
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• My greatest aspiration was always to live in the tropics.

  

  Manuel Puig
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• How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• It couldn't have happened anywhere but in little old New York.

  

  O. Henry
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• I want babies. I think I'll be a great dad.

  

  Oliver Hudson
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• I never lose confidence. As soon as you lose confidence, you're done.

  

  Vernon Wells
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• I've come to feel that if I can't make something happen in under an hour and a half, it's not going to happen in a compelling way in a three-hour play.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Play
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• Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.

  

  Maeve Binchy
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• Maybe guys also have insecurities, but in a sporting arena, they keep it to themselves. I can't do that.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
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• A revolution is a struggle to the death between the future and the past.

  

  Fidel Castro
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• The only danger about websites, you know, is people who remember something you did or said thirty or forty years ago, and bring it up against you, so you're going for a job and you don't get it.

  

  Patrick Macnee
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• Not all lies are harmful. Sometimes we're willing participants in deception for the sake of social dignity, maybe to keep a secret that should be kept secret, secret. We say, 'Nice song.' 'Honey, you don't look fat in that, no.'

  

  Pamela Meyer
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• As the president of Afghanistan I look at the suffering of our people as a whole.

  

  Hamid Karzai
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• I liked very much when we lived in Hampstead. We would go for walks on the Heath. I liked it better than living in the centre of town.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
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• Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones.

  

  Yves Behar
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• When I wake up every morning, I thank God for the new day.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
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• When I had my first child, I started to try and make fresh food for him daily, and I became frustrated with the amount of work - and time - involved in making baby food at home.

  

  Camila Alves
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• Outrageous behavior, also known as the lunatic fringe, is the seed bed of innovation and creativity.

  

  Joel Salatin
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• There were aspects of stardom I didn't like, which were of no consequence, really, but the positive things far outweighed the negative. By the time I came to write 'Setting Sons,' I felt my writing was more like prose, set to music.

  

  Paul Weller Incognito
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• I'm always happy when I'm surrounded by water, I think I'm a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
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• What you discover when you look at creativity from the perspective of the brain is that it is universal. We're all creative all of the time, we can't help but be creative.

  

  Jonah Lehrer
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