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		Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise.
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Grant 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
	
	
	
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		When you play on a team, you learn that there will always be five guys you like, a bunch of guys who are OK, and five you despise. The trick to getting along in any system is not to worry about the five you despise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				D. B. Sweeney 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I warm up with my mom and make sure I understand what the songs are about and make sure I'm using the right technique. To be honest with you, I really don't practice a lot... Usually, I say a prayer and ask the Lord to sing with me and help me and stand on the stage with me. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jackie Evancho 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Avoid war, because that always pushes human beings backward. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Hans Rosling 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Whatever notoriety Fall Out Boy used to have prevents me from having the ability to start over from the bottom again. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Patrick Stump 
			 
			
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		Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Gary Wolf 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the beginning, I found it hard to give my songs away, but now I've realised it's exciting, and it's only making me better. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Bebe Rexha 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	 
		
		
	
	
	
	
		I did a lot of standup from ages 19 to 24 but then stopped to focus on sketch with Broken Lizard. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Jay Chandrasekhar 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Being able to walk out of the studio after a week of intense recording and jump into a cold sea and sit in a hot spring and soak for a few hours completely resets the whole system. Really refreshing. For me, it's all about stepping out of the ordinary. Even psychically. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Damien Rice 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I was really sheltered growing up, with six brothers and sisters. We played together all the time, and I was living in a fantasy world, like most creative people. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Edward Enninful 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		I grew up on film sets and I had a ball. It wouldn't have had nearly as much fun if my dad had been working behind a desk somewhere. I remember being on the set of 'The Godfather: Part III,' and all the kids were running around and doing crazy things, and Francis Ford Coppola just embraced that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Dominik Garcia-Lorido 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		In the first two projects I've worked on professionally, I've been doing ensemble work with other young women, which I think is pretty cool. And they both were directed by and written by women. It's been a wonderful experience of real ensemble support and women lifting each other up, and I feel really lucky for that. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Maya Hawke 
			 
		 
	
	
  
	 
	
	
	
	
		Complex tasks are often better handled in the back of our mind, and that's often true of creative tasks - when you have something complex to deal with in writing or research or responding to an email. I'll start working, put it aside, and sometimes I'll wake up the next morning with a solution, or I'll find one when I exercise. 
	
	 
	
		
			
				
					
						 
				
				Adam Grant