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What is originality? Undetected plagiarism. -- William Ralph Inge
The map is not the territory. -- Alfred Korzybski
Ideas shape the course of history. -- John Maynard Keynes
The obvious is always least understood. -- Klemens von Metternich
Don't confuse being stimulating with being blunt. -- Barbara Walters
Musical comedies aren't written, they are rewritten. -- Stephen Sondheim
Every exit is an entry somewhere else. -- Tom Stoppard
What is now proved was once only imagined. -- William Blake
We think in generalities, but we live in detail. -- Alfred North Whitehead
The only joy in the world is to begin. -- Cesare Pavese
Our life is frittered away by detail... simplify, simplify. -- Henry David Thoreau
The creation of a thousand forests is in one acorn. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Change is not merely necessary to life - it is life. -- Alvin Toffler
Every great advance in science has issued from a new audacity of imagination. -- John Dewey
Greater than the tread of mighty armies is an idea whose time has come. -- Victor Hugo
If at first the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it. -- Albert Einstein
A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be free. -- Nikos Kazantzakis
No matter how old you get, if you can keep the desire to be creative, you're keeping the man-child alive. -- John Cassavetes
Knowledge is being applied to knowledge itself. It is now fast becoming the one factor in production, sidelining both capital and labour. -- Peter Drucker
Extraverts are comfortable thinking as they speak. Introverts prefer slow-paced interactions that allow room for thought. Brainstorming does not work for them. Email does. -- Laurie Helgoe
I'm in the process of brainstorming with my marketing team and all that stuff, trying to come up with a concept for a late-night restaurant for people in Birmingham. -- Ruben Studdard
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. -- Edward de Bono
To take the difficulties, setbacks and sorrows of life as a challenge to overcome makes us stronger, rather than unjust punishment which should not happen to us, requires faith and courage. -- Erich Fromm
A successful work of art is not one which resolves contradictions in a spurious harmony, but one which expresses the idea of harmony negatively by embodying the contradictions, pure and uncompromised, in its innermost structure. -- Theodor Adorno
Natural resources have dropped out of the competitive equation. In fact, a lack of natural resources may even be an advantage. Because the industries we are competing for - the industries of the future - are all based on brainpower. -- Lester Thurow
I've often said that there's no such thing as writer's block; the problem is idea block. When I find myself frozen-whether I'm working on a brief passage in a novel or brainstorming about an entire book-it's usually because I'm trying to shoehorn an idea into the passage or story where it has no place. -- Jeffery Deaver
I do a lot of brainstorming with my editors. -- Sara Shepard
Women's networks are a necessary part of life. A mixture of empathy and brainstorming can move mountains. -- Hazel Hawke
Meet regularly with your business team and brainstorm. Intricate business problems are mostly resolved at brainstorming sessions. -- Richard Branson
I've always loved brainstorming with other writers, and I consider having my work critiqued a part of that brainstorming. -- Jay Asher
Creativity is not the domain of one single person. Through free-association of thoughts and brainstorming, an accidental suggestion can be the best solution. -- Joshua Fernandez
Many fans don't have the leisure time to track my every word. They're too busy brainstorming solutions to the economic crisis and winning Pulitzers. -- Michael Showalter
I do all of my good thinking at over 65 miles per hour. The speed limit is, luckily, the same speed as my brainstorming speed. -- Maggie Stiefvater
You'll learn more in a day talking to customers than a week of brainstorming, a month of watching competitors, or a year of market research. -- Aaron Levie
I sometimes compare my brainstorming on paper to the drilling of oil wells. The only way to strike oil is to drill a lot of wells. -- Tom Monaghan
My ideas often come from strong mental images. When I'm observing some relatively ordinary thing, I'll think, "What if...." and out of that brainstorming a story emerges. -- Cassandra Clare
Many futurists use a checklist approach to make sure they're covering a sufficiently wide set of topics in terms of both research and brainstorming during a foresight exercise. -- Jamais Cascio
Writers know - especially new writers - [that] a lot of it [creative process] is the prewriting stage, the talking, brainstorming, the narrative arc and the character sketches. -- Jenna Bush
In a regular class I don't focus on the form, but I think that focus is helpful for brainstorming and coming up with ideas quickly, especially with autobiographical material. -- Bonnie Jo Campbell
Painting, to me, is a unique experience. Each work is a surprise and has its own personal and intuitive meaning. After brainstorming feelings and memories, each painting evolves freely and independently. -- Fernando Araujo Perdomo
When I'm riding in a car, I don't really listen to music. I turn the radio off and just be thinking, brainstorming. I'm one of these people that just like to brainstorm. -- Chamillionaire
Generating diverse ideas requires being clear about the kind of input needed and creating multiple ways for diverse team members to share their ideas (e.g. use more than just a brainstorming session). -- David Livermore

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