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• The artist brain is the sensory brain: sight and sound, smell and taste, touch.  These are the elements of magic, and magic is the elemental stuff of art.  In filling the well, think magic.  Think delight.  Think fun.  Do not think duty.  Do not do what you should do-spiritual sit-ups like reading a dull but recommended critical text.  Do what intrigues you, explore what interests you; think mystery, not mastery.

  Julia Cameron

  Spiritual, Art, Fun

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• One of our chief needs as creative beings is support.  Unfortunately, this can be hard to come by.  Ideally, we would be nurtured and encourages first by our nuclear family and then by ever-widening circles of friends, teachers, well-wishers.  As young artists, we need and want to be acknowledged for our attempts and efforts as well as for our achievements and triumphs.  Unfortunately, many artists never receive this critical early encouragement.  As a result, they may not know they are artists at all.

  Julia Cameron

  Teacher, Encouragement, Artist

  Julia Cameron (2012). “The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity”, p.45, Souvenir Press

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• The first thing I plan to do is what I did while serving in Arizona’s legislature — and that was to seek out members that I often disagreed with on important issues. It was through our authentic relationships and mutual respect that we found common ground on legislation that helped people. The challenge for Congress is to move past the harsh partisanship that we saw in the last term. This is a critical step in advancing policies that will strengthen and protect LGBT families.

  Kyrsten Sinema

  Moving, Past, Issues

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• The empowerment journey that is critical to your healing - and to your life - comes from progressing through the deep waters of your dark passions and continuing onward to discover not what has been taken from you, but what you have yet to give and who you have yet to become.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Healing, Passion

  "Defy Gravity: Healing Beyond the Bounds of Reason". Book by Caroline Myss, 2009.

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• Such is putting! 2% technique, 98% inspiration or confidence or touch...the only thing great putters have in common is touch and that is the critical ingredient...none of them found it through mechanizing a stroke, nor do I believe they could maintain it that way.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Believe, Inspiration, Golf

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• This is a glorious biography ... The time is ripe for a new biography of Edith Wharton of this intimacy and on this scale ... Lee the biographer pursues her subject down every winding corridor, into every hidden passage and dark corner ... Her critical exploration of Edith Whartons work is dazzlingly assured ... A feat of exhaustive research, and finely tuned to Whartons creative achievement at the same time ... [Wharton] could scarcely have failed to be impressed by ... its artistic sympathy, its sonorous depths, and its soaring conception.

  Mark Bostridge

  Dark, Achievement, Creative

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• If the thickness is larger than the critical value I can produce an explosion.

  Leo Szilard

  Thickness, Explosions, Produce

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• Feminist theory has left an indelible mark on my own critical—and creative—thinking . . . For me, everything I questioned about what it meant to be a man – and how much my sexuality would perpetually challenge those meanings—could be found in arguments posed by feminists. What can I say? I identified.

  Todd Haynes

  Men, Thinking, Feminist

  Todd Haynes (2007). “Far From Heaven, Safe, and Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story: Three Screenplays”, p.8, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The gulf between what the press and many regular people believe Bitcoin is, and what a growing critical mass of technologists believe Bitcoin is, remains enormous.

  Marc Andreessen

  Believe, People, Growing

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• The historical mission of our times is to re-invent the human—at the species level, with critical reflection, within the community of life-systems, in a time-developmental context, by means of story and shared dream experience.

  Thomas Berry

  Dream, Mean, Reflection

  Thomas Berry (2011). “The Great Work: Our Way into the Future”, p.159, Crown

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• Take the Money and Run? Can Political and Socio-Critical Art ‘Survive’?

  Martha Rosler

  Running, Art, Political

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• Critical to any practice of sacred psychology is training in multiple imageries to facilitate the inner realism of journeys of the soul.

  Jean Houston

  Journey, Practice, Psychology

  Jean Houston (1987). “The Search for the Beloved: Journeys in Mythology and Sacred Psychology”, Tarcher

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• All innovation begins with vision. It’s what happens next that is critical.

  Eric Ries

  Innovation, Vision, Next

  Eric Ries (2011). “The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses”, p.278, Crown Business

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• Trust is the foundation of real teamwork. And so the first dysfunction is a failure on the part of team members to understand and open up to one another. And if that sounds touchy-feely, let me explain, because there is nothing soft about it. It is an absolutely critical part of building a team. In fact, it’s probably the most critical.

  Patrick Lencioni

  Teamwork, Real, Dysfunction

  Patrick M. Lencioni (2010). “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable”, p.41, John Wiley & Sons

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• FAITH. No one word personifies the absolute worst and most wicked properties of religion better than that. Faith is mind-rot. It’s the poison that destroys critical thinking, undermines evidence, and leads people into lives dedicated to absurdity. It’s a parasite regarded as a virtue. I speak as a representative of the scientific faction of atheism: it’s one thing we simply cannot compromise on. Faith is wrong.

  PZ Myers

  Thinking, People, Mind

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• It's critical that the manager has the respect of players so he can make the moves that he feels is appropriate without having somebody go to the papers. They respect you. So you respect them back.

  Dale Murphy

  Moving, Player, Paper

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• It's just starting. I think it's going to take another year and a half to get up to critical mass, but everybody loves Chinese food, Thai food, Japanese food, and it's all been exploited. The Filipinos combined the best of all of that with Spanish technique. The Spanish were a colonial power there for 500 years, and they left behind adobo and cooking in vinegar - techniques that, applied to those tropical Asian ingredients, are miraculous.

  Andrew Zimmern

  Thinking, Years, Cooking

  "Andrew Zimmern: Filipino food is the 'next big thing'". Interview with Veronica Meewes, www.today.com. June 12, 2012.

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• Many times, what people call 'writer's block' is the confusion that happens when a writer has a great idea, but their writing skill is not up to the task of putting that idea down on paper. I think that learning the craft of writing is critical.

  Pearl Cleage

  Block, Writing, Thinking

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• We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil. Yet we should not pass up our opportunities in that critical 3%

  Donald Knuth

  Opportunity, Roots, Evil

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• The desire to criticise becomes less and less as the character is developed. It is the mark of a fine character never to be critical and to mention but rarely the faults of others. A strong character does not resist evil, but uses their strength in building the good. They know that when the light is made strong, the darkness will disappear of itself.

  Christian D. Larson

  Strong, Character, Light

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• We put too much of a premium on presenting and not enough on substance and critical thinking.

  Susan Cain

  Thinking, Substance, Too Much

  Susan Cain (2012). “Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking”, p.52, Broadway Books

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• Visiting stores and testing products is one of the critical elements of the analyst's job.

  Peter Lynch

  Jobs, Investing, Elements

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.40, Simon and Schuster

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• The balance and patience factors are much more critical in surfing than they are in snowboarding ... if you're out surfing serious waves and you wipe out, you don't land on soft snow. It's usually either very sharp coral, or you get raked across the beach gravel and sand while you're tumbling underwater.

  Frederick Lenz

  Beach, Snowboarding, Land

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• With the media, I could be quick and ugly and critical. I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve.

  Payne Stewart

  Sports, Media, Ugly

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• The way we regard death is critical to the way we experience life. When your fear of death changes, the way you live your life changes.

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  Ram Dass

  Life Changing, Live Your Life, Fearless

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