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"Music should always be an adventure"
Coleman Hawkins
"You can't steal a gift. If you're talented, it will show in your playin"
Coleman Hawkins
"You have a masterpiece inside you, you know. One unlike any that has ever been created, or ever will be. If you go to your grave without painting your masterpiece, it will not get painted. No one else can paint it. Only you."
Gordon MacKenzie
"What is the biggest obstacle to creativity? Attachment to outcome. As soon as you become attached to a specific outcome, you feel compelled to control and manipulate what you're doing and in the process you shut yourself off to other possibilities. Creativity is not just about succeeding. It's about experimenting and discovering"
Gordon MacKenzie
"To be fully free to create, we must first find the courage and willingness to let go: Let go of the strategies that have worked for us in the past... Let go of our biases, the foundation of our illusions... Let go of our grievances, the root source of our victimhood... Let go of our so-often-denied fear of being found unlovable"
Gordon MacKenzie
"Creativity is always preceded by destruction"
Umberto Eco
"Writing does not mean to passively add to the noise of the world but to actively engage in the transformation of knowledge"
Umberto Eco
"The world is open for play, everything and "
Robin Williams
"Your mind is a creative machine. It can move things from the possible to the impossible in the blink of an eye. Challenge yourself."
Buzz Aldrin
"Creativity comes from constraint"
Biz Stone
"There’s no such thing as a new idea, it’s a new perspective"
Biz Stone
"The most damaging phrase in the language is: It's always been done that way."
Grace Hopper
"What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool that we have ever come up with, and it's the equivalent of a bicycle for our minds"
Herbert Simon
"The proper study of mankind is the science of design"
Herbert Simon
"When you’re writing a sketch, it has to be surrounded by a situation. It can’t just be out of the air"
Leslie Jones
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