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Creativity has more to do with the elimination of the inessential than with inventing something new. Helmut Jahn

Creativity Something Inventing More Something New New Than Elimination

Don't get me wrong - I don't want to be mean to the scammers. There are lots of people online who do that. I'm content merely having fun inventing, and I figure any time they're spending with me is time in which they're not scamming vulnerable adults out of their savings. James Veitch

Time Me People Savings Spending Out Online Having Inventing Having Fun Adult Wrong Merely Content Vulnerable Lots Get Any Want Which Mean Figure Who Fun

Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while. Jason Kander

Rights Voting Political Party Strategy Has-Been Fraud Inventing Part Major Voting Rights Major Part Been While Republican Widespread

My brother died when he was 19, so a part of me indulges and thinks that some part of him that made him uniquely him is out there, on another plane. So inventing the fictional afterlife in 'Sing, Unburied, Sing' was a way of making that wish real. Jesmyn Ward

Mainly, the more faddish and newer stages of life are really just marketing schemes. Tweenhood. The young old. The quarter-life crisis. You can sell a lot of junk to a lot of people by inventing a stage of life and giving it a name. Jill Lepore

People who've had very unhappy childhoods are pretty good at inventing themselves. If nobody invents you for yourself, nothing is left but to invent yourself for others. John le Carre

Good You Yourself People Unhappy Invent Nothing Others Pretty Pretty Good Inventing Had Nobody Left Very Childhoods Themselves

Britain is famous for being great at inventing and poor at commercializing. Margaret Heffernan

Great Inventing Being Famous Poor Britain

As I see it, whoever's doing the inventing is also doing most of the learning - and probably having most of the fun. Mitchel Resnick

Learning See Having Inventing Most Also Doing Fun Whoever

The habit of collecting, of attachment to things, is an essential human trait. But Western civilization put collecting on a pedestal by inventing museums. Museums are about representing power. It could be the king's power or, later, people's power. Orhan Pamuk

The most important training, though, is to experience life as a writer, questioning everything, inventing multiple explanations for everything. If you do that, all the other things will come; if you don't, there's no hope for you. Orson Scott Card

So in the first draft, I'm inventing people and place with a broad schematic idea of what's going to happen. In the process, of course, I discover all sorts of bigger and more substantial things. Peter Carey

People First Broad Inventing More Schematic Idea Sort Course Discover Going Substantial Happen Bigger Process Place Things Draft

The same people who are murdered slowly in the mechanized slaughterhouses of work are also arguing, singing, drinking, dancing, making love, holding the streets, picking up weapons and inventing a new poetry. Raoul Vaneigem

I never had the time or luxury to think about inventing my own colour theory. When colour came, I was interested in expressing things that happened around me in time. Rene Burri

Time Me Luxury Own Think About My Own Inventing Colour Never Had Around Came Happened Interested Theory Expressing Things

In August 1994, I was invited to have dinner with House Minority Whip Newt Gingrich. At that time, I was a senior engineer working for Martin Marietta Astronautics in Denver, where I had been responsible for inventing a new plan called 'Mars Direct.' Robert Zubrin

Time Engineer Dinner Minority Responsible Mars Gingrich Direct Martin Inventing Had Invited New House August Been Denver Senior Where Whip Plan Newt Newt Gingrich Working

I like inventing things when I write rather than autobiography. Romesh Gunesekera

Rather Inventing Write Like Than Autobiography Things

I was never a comic book guy. I like the movies when I see them, especially the origin stories. I never felt like I could be on the set, at 3 o'clock in the morning, tired, with 10 important decisions to make, and know, intuitively, what the story needs. For me, I'd be copycatting and not inventing. I've never said yes to one. Ron Howard

Needs Morning Me Tired Book Important See Intuitively Guy Inventing Could Never Like Know Important Decisions Make Felt Said Comic Comic Book Yes Stories Story Decisions Movies Them Origin Set

I'm interested in exploring the places where all media meet. As TV, Internet, art, games and movies all start moving towards the same point, I want to be part of inventing that space. I'd like to explore media that are traditionally seen as part of the mainstream but not necessarily utilize mainstream formulas. Ryan Trecartin

Art Space Internet Seen Meet TV Inventing Point Part Mainstream Towards Like Same Where Want Interested Places Movies Moving Formulas Explore Exploring Games Media Utilize Necessarily Start

Imagine how many aspects of nature we would miss if we lived on the surface of the sun. Without inventing refrigerators, we would only know gaseous matter and never observe liquids or solids, and miss the beauty of snowflakes. Wolfgang Ketterle

Nature Matter Beauty Sun Would Inventing Only Never Observe Miss Know Without How Surface Liquid Aspects Many Lived Imagine

I'm the laziest inventor you ever met. My inventing is in my head - I don't have to be in the lab working and sweating. Woody Norris

You Met Inventing Inventor Head Lab Sweating Working Ever

Nonetheless, we continue to be obsessed with finding or inventing a European nation which, as in the nation state, guarantees homogeneity and thus an appropriate form of democracy and centralized government. Ulrich Beck

Government Democracy Nation State Appropriate Finding Inventing Obsessed Thus Nonetheless Continue Form Which Centralized European Homogeneity Guarantees

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