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• In order to reclaim America's 'creativity' differentiator, we must be able to provide businesses with a workforce of imaginative employees who will pave the way to a new future. It is time to transform our educational system in America to embrace and nurture creativity as a core value.

  Larry R. Thompson

  Educational, Creativity, America

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• Let no Christian parents fall into the delusion that Sunday School is intended to ease them of their personal duties. The first and most natural condition of things is for Christian parents to train up their own children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Children, Fall

  Charles Spurgeon (2015). “Select Works”, p.343, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Some degree of withdrawal serves to nurture man's creative powers. The artist and the scientist bring out of the dark void, like the mysterious universe itself, the unique, the strange, the unexpected. Numerous observers have testified upon the loneliness of the process.

  Loren Eiseley

  Loneliness, Creativity, Dark

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• A tree uses what comes its way to nurture itself. By sinking its roots deeply into the earth, by accepting the rain that flows towards it, by reaching out to the sun, the tree perfects its character and becomes great. ... Absorb, absorb, absorb. That is the secret of the tree.

  Ming-Dao Deng

  Rain, Character, Roots

  Ming-Dao Deng (2013). “Everyday Tao: Living with Balance and Harmony”, p.18, Harper Collins

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• Nothing feebler does earth nurture than man, Of all things breathing and moving.

  Homer

  Moving, Men, Breathing

  Homer (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Homer (Illustrated)”, p.5156, Delphi Classics

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• If we can combine our knowledge of science with the wisdom of wildness, if we can nurture civilization through roots in the primitive, man's potentialities appear to be unbounded, Through this evolving awareness, and his awareness of that awareness, he can emerge with the miraculous-to which we can attach what better name than 'God'? And in this merging, as long sensed by intuition but still only vaguely perceived by rationality, experience may travel without need for accompanying life.

  Charles Lindbergh

  God, Wisdom, Science

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• From music and dance to painting and sculpting, the arts allow us to explore new worlds and to view life from another perspective. They also encourage individuals to sharpen their skills and to nurture their imagination and intellect.

  George W. Bush

  Art, Views, Skills

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• To be an artist, you have to nurture the things that most people discard.

  Richard Avedon

  Art, Artist, People

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• I started The Body Shop in 1976 simply to create a livelihood for myself and my two daughters, while my husband, Gordon, was trekking across the Americas. I had no training or experience and my only business acumen was Gordon's advice to take sales of £300 a week. Nobody talks of entrepreneurship as survival, but that's exactly what it is and what nurtures creative thinking.

  Anita Roddick

  Daughter, Mother, Husband

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• You are not likely to bring out the best in people or nurture their creativity if every time you hear about their problems you instantly offer a solution Encourage people to look for their own solutions-and project the knowledge that they are capable of doing so.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Encouragement, Creativity, People

  Nathaniel Branden (1998). “Nathaniel Brandens Self-Esteem Every Day: Reflections on Self-Esteem and Spirituality”, p.408, Simon and Schuster

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• Companies have to nurture [creativity and motivation]-and have to do it by building a compassionate yet performance-driven corporate culture. In the knowledge economy the traditional soft people side of our business has become the new hard side.

  Gay Mitchell

  Motivation, Creativity, People

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• The price of peace is righteousness. Men and nations may loudly proclaim, 'Peace, peace,' but there shall be no peace until individuals nurture in their souls those principles of personal purity, integrity, and character which foster the development of peace. Peace cannot be imposed. It must come from the lives and hearts of men. There is no other way.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Integrity, Heart, Character

  Ezra Taft Benson (1960). “So shall ye reap: selected addresses”

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• Each of has a natural instinct to rise like a flame. Lets nurture that instinct

  Narendra Modi

  Powerful, Flames, Natural Instinct

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• Fundamentally, we are a product of choice, not nature (genes) or nurture (upbringing, environment).

  Stephen Covey

  Choices, Environment, Genes

  Stephen R. Covey (2013). “The 8th Habit: From Effectiveness to Greatness”, p.41, Simon and Schuster

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• Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a space between manmade cultivation and wilderness. Look for them in the space between nurture and nature, they are to be found at all boarders and boundaries, or on the edges of water where it is neither land nor lake, neither path nor pond. They come when we are half-asleep. They come at moments when we least expect them; when our rational mind balances with the fluid irrational.

  Brian Froud

  Garden, Lakes, Land

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• We are born with the seed of joy; it is up to us to nurture it.

  Goldie Hawn

  Joy, Born, Seeds

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• I consider it my job to nurture the creativity of the people I work with because at Sony we know that a terrific idea is more likely to happen in an open, free and trusting atmosphere than when everything is calculated, every action analysed and every responsibility assigned by an organisation chart.

  Akio Morita

  Jobs, Creativity, Responsibility

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• Because that's the thing about depression. When I feel it deeply, I don't want to let it go. It becomes a comfort. I want to cloak myself under its heavy weight and breathe it into my lunges. I want to nurture it, grow it, cultivate it. It's mine. I want to check out with it, drift asleep wrapped in its arms and not wake up for a long, long time.

  Stephanie Perkins

  Depression, Long, Let It Go

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• For me and my family personally, September 11 was a reminder that life is fleeting, impermanent, and uncertain. Therefore, we must make use of every moment and nurture it with affection, tenderness, beauty, creativity, and laughter.

  Deepak Chopra

  Life, Laughter, Creativity

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• Build it, and they will come" only works in the movies. Social Media is a "build it, nurture it, engage them, and they may come and stay.

  Seth Godin

  Media, Marketing, May

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• Our religion is made to eradicate vices, instead it encourages them, covers them, and nurtures them.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Political, Vices, Made

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• The single most valuable human trait, the one quality every schoolchild and adult should be taught to nurture, is, quite simply, kindness.

  Derren Brown

  Kindness, Quality, Adults

  "Confessions of a Conjuror". Book by Derren Brown, October 2010.

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• A lot of the women that I treat will tell me that when they talk to their siblings or mothers they very often have similar challenges. One could make the case that it's nurture, not nature because these twins were brought up together, but you can't rule out the genetic argument.

  Laura Berman

  Mother, Sibling, Challenges

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• I don't think I'd rock a moustache. I don't mind growing a beard. I think it's just a guy thing. We like to nurture a beard, see what we can grow and sort of test our own patience with how long we can let it grow out. However, I'm not really as keen on moustaches as I am on beards.

  James Magnussen

  Thinking, Rocks, Long

  "James Magnussen Movember Interview". Interview with Jamie Watt, au.askmen.com. November 4, 2014.

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• What can we do to nurture and support a people capable of living in freedom?

  Sarah Palin

  People, Support, Capable

  "Sarah Palin On Gun Control Debate: Politicians Shouldn’t Ask How ‘To Limit The Freedom Of The People’" By Paige Lavender, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 20, 2013.

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