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Writing is hard work. Generating stories that catch people's attention and holding it are very difficult. -- David Ogden Stiers
Generating ideas is not a problem. Incubation is. Acceleration is. -- Rita Gunther McGrath
Generating ideas isn't some mystical talent that you have to be born with: it's a skill you can develop. -- Charles Stross
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
Generating exciting new ideas burns 325 calories per hour and has no carbs. Banging your head against a wall uses 150 calories an hour. Rambling aimlessly about a point that someone has already made burns only 3 calories per hour. -- Mike Brown
When I was really young, Dad wasn't that well known. I don't remember when I realised he was a writer, but I do remember him leaving his full-time job at the Central Electrical Generating Board to concentrate on books. -- Rhianna Pratchett
The Navajo Generating Station in Page, for example, employs hundreds of people, mostly Native Americans, and provides nearly all of the power for the Central Arizona Project. That means our entire state has a big stake in the energy production and economic stability of these plants. -- Ann Kirkpatrick
I really do think that our subconscious gets corrupted with fear, and fear is how news media - all media - makes us [watch] long enough to get to the Tide commercial. That's all it's about. Generating fear so that we can buy the proper laundry detergent. -- Ann Patchett
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
To avoid a blackout, electricity generating companies must lower generation in line with low demand. -- Jyotiraditya Madhavrao Scindia
Technological society has succeeded in multiplying the opportunities for pleasure, but it has great difficulty in generating joy. -- Pope Paul VI
Utopianism is probably a necessary social device for generating the superhuman efforts without which no major revolution is achieved. -- Eric Hobsbawm
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe. -- Robert Casey
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They're trying to put data centers in cold environments because they're actually generating so much heat now; they're using up so much electricity. -- Rick Smolan
The California crunch really is the result of not enough power-generating plants and then not enough power to power the power of generating plants. -- George W. Bush
Evolutionary cosmology formulates theories in which a universe is capable of giving rise to and generating future universes out of itself, within black holes or whatever. -- Robert Nozick
Literary theory has become a parody of science, generating its own arcane jargon. In the process, tragically, it discourages love of literature for its own sake. -- Nancy Pearcey
British fashion is self confident and fearless. It refuses to bow to commerce, thus generating a constant flow of new ideas whilst drawing in British heritage. -- Alexander McQueen
To work our way towards a shared language once again, we must first learn how to discover patterns which are deep, and capable of generating life. -- Christopher Alexander
America's can-do spirit cast a warm glow across nations and cultures, generating more goodwill and support for our country's ideals and causes than had otherwise been possible. -- Buzz Aldrin
The challenge of global warming should stimulate a whole raft of manifestly benign innovations - for conserving energy and generating it by 'clean' means (biofuels, innovative renewables, carbon sequestration, and nuclear fusion). -- Martin Rees
Big Internet companies on average are capable of generating revenue of $1 million per employee, and that compares to 10 to 20 percent of that which is normally generated by traditional offline businesses of comparable size. -- Yuri Milner
The potential for Home Star to create jobs is proven and real. In Vermont, our statewide energy efficiency utility, Efficiency Vermont, created more than 430 jobs in 2007 and 2008, generating more than $40 million in income. -- Peter Welch
I spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest. -- Laura Hillenbrand
It really matters whether people are working on generating clean energy or improving transportation or making the Internet work better and all those things. And small groups of people can have a really huge impact. -- Larry Page
A successful society is characterized by a rising living standard for its population, increasing investment in factories and basic infrastructure, and the generation of additional surplus, which is invested in generating new discoveries in science and technology. -- Robert Trout
The arts can play a vital role in revitalizing neighborhoods, using and improving vacant space, bringing new jobs and new sense of opportunity, and improving public safety by generating more foot traffic and more eyes on the street. -- Gavin Newsom
Google the name Prometheus, and see how often it has been given to innovations in many different fields, notably science, medicine and space exploration. The fire he stole can be seen, too, as the spark generating all artistic creativity. -- Neil MacGregor
The world has today 546 nuclear plants generating electricity. Their experience is being continuously researched, and feedback should be provided to all. Nuclear scientists have to interact with the people of the nation, and academic institutions continuously update nuclear power generation technology and safety. -- A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
It always surprises me when donors who operate successful businesses assume that just building a school structure means that a community now has access to education. When creating a business, does renting an office space now mean that you're producing goods, training staff and generating revenues? -- Adam Braun
I'm all for past influences; the question is whether they are deterministic. Freud and the behaviorists argue that what we are at any given moment is billiard balls whose past determines our future course. That doesn't take into account that we are forever generating internal representations of positive futures and choosing among them. -- Martin Seligman
Remember, when you go to YouTube, you do a search. When you go to Google, you do a search. As we get the search integrated between YouTube and Google, which we're working on, it will drive a lot of traffic into both places. So the trick, overall, is generating more searches, more uses of Google. -- Eric Schmidt
A novel is a machine for generating interpretations. -- Umberto Eco
Science is the business of generating testable hypotheses. -- Michael Crichton
Remember, that money is of the prolific, generating nature. -- Benjamin Franklin
Prayer, like radium, is a luminous and self-generating form of energy. -- Alexis Carrel
Stereotyping and generating brands around musicians I think contributes to their eventual demise. -- Squarepusher
I have NEVER worked with a better lead generating company! Thank You Zillow. -- Spencer Rascoff
Natural selection is a mechanism for generating an exceedingly high degree of improbability. -- Ronald Fisher
There's a lot of power in executing data - generating data and executing data. -- Ken Thompson
Email is 20-30 times more effective in generating a purchase than any other tool. -- Josh Kaufman
Whenever you have something looping, you essentially have something generating information with less information. -- Tristan Perich
Deriving truth from joy may be far more easier than generating joy from the truth. -- Toba Beta
There is no formula for generating the authentic warmth of love. It cannot be copied. -- Alan Watts
There must be the... generating force of Love behind every effort destined to be successful. -- Henry David Thoreau
We need to have an honest conversation about the policies that are generating opportunity and prosperity. -- Daniel Garza
We need to address our Nation's mounting garbage problem by generating less garbage, particularly paper waste. -- Wendell H. Ford
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A lot of what Groupon is generating is demand for something people didn't know they wanted. -- Jeremy Stoppelman
Money is of a prolific generating nature. Money can beget money, and its offspring can beget more. -- Benjamin Franklin
A generating function is a clothesline on which we hang up a sequence of numbers for display. -- Herbert Wilf
It has been suggested that the color of an aura can reveal characteristics about the generating source. -- Mark Ireland
Open-mindedness is a precondition for generating new ideas, but focusing on the problem is almost equally important. -- Eraldo Banovac
Capitalism has given people both the liberty and the incentive to create, produce, and trade, thereby generating prosperity. -- Johan Norberg
Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything. -- Edward Abbey
A genius is someone who can tolerate the discomfort of uncertainty while generating as many ideas as possible. -- Marty Neumeier
There's no democratic state that's not compromised to the very core by its part in generating human misery. -- Gilles Deleuze
Freedom is never an achieved state; like electricity, we've got to keep generating it or the lights go out. -- Wayne LaPierre
Creativity in its fullest sense includes both generating an idea and manifesting it- making something happen as a result. -- Ned Herrmann
China, slavishly dedicated to ancient scholars, incapable of generating within herself sufficient rulers to continue, without bloodshed, a nation. -- L. Ron Hubbard
Ignorance is a self-generating state of mind; one of its characteristics is that it doesn't recognize itself as ignorance. -- Jane Smiley
By its very nature and design, Network Marketing is a strikingly Fair, Democratic, Socially Responsible system of generating wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Social media, like blogs, are truth-seeking technologies. In fact, the Internet itself is the greatest truth-generating device ever created. -- Jason Calacanis
Brian Eno developed systems to keep himself on edge and to keep himself in a position where he's generating ideas. -- Jon Brion
THE KEY TO GENERATING LOYALTY AND RISING ABOVE THE GENERAL NOISE SEEMS TO BE ALL ABOUT CREATING AN AUTHENTIC VOICE. -- Richard Branson
A theatrical on a tight budget really only becomes about generating critical reviews for you and your film, not revenue. -- Aurora Guerrero
But to practice leadership, you need to accept that you are in the business of generating chaos, confusion, and conflict -- Ronald A. Heifetz
While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow. -- Kara Swisher
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs. -- Michael Burgess
I believe that States should be credited for their non-Federal investment in revenue-generating transportation facilities to address their regional transportation needs. -- Michael Burgess
A vast abortion industry, generating some half a billion dollars annually, sprang into existence in the wake of Roe and Doe." -- Robert Casey
The next big invention that will change the way we live should be things like ways of generating energy like electricity. -- Bill Gates
Meanings generating meanings - the process has backed us into a particular corner, a kind of cave, where sunlight seldom enters. -- Tarthang Tulku
When God wants to bring more power into our lives., He brings more pressure. He is generating spiritual force by friction. -- A. B. Simpson
We have a plan for a stronger middle class, with the goal of generating 12 million new jobs over the next four years. -- Paul Ryan
The full beauty of the subject of generating functions emerges only from tuning in on both channels: the discrete and the continuous. -- Herbert Wilf
The Daily Show was an incredible training ground for that kind of thing. It was all about discipline and generating material constantly. -- Ed Helms
Keep the people ignorant and afraid and control and power becomes a detail - a self generating byproduct of the people's hysteria. -- Derek R. Audette
To obtain financial freedom, one must be either a business owner, an investor, or both, generating passive income, particularly on a monthly basis. -- Robert Kiyosaki
More and more countries of the world have decided that corporations do a better job of generating and deploying capital than do states. -- Max L. Stackhouse
People are sort of numb to watching violence, but sexual activity is still as strong as it ever was in terms of generating response. -- Steven Soderbergh
Both had trouble generating conviction of their own but no trouble at all reacting to what they viewed as the false conviction of others. -- Michael Lewis
A narrator should not supply interpretations of his work; otherwise he would have not written a novel, which is a machine for generating interpretations. -- Umberto Eco
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats a much tougher matter. -- Brian Aldiss
It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. -- Brian Aldiss
I want a future abortion conversation known for its openness, respect and empathy, so instead of generating more heat, anger and conflict, I practice pro-voice. -- Aspen Baker
Network marketing gives people the opportunity, with very low risk and very low financial commitment, to build their own income-generating asset and acquire great wealth. -- Robert Kiyosaki
If people grow things themselves, their children understand, then schools in the area know that this community's generating something with its own energy, to consume. -- Arthur Potts Dawson
Our hopes, desires and ambitions are powerful forces existing within us for the shaping of the future. They are the generating forces that create the future. -- Daisaku Ikeda
People often get very entangled in their work and life, so de-stressing is very important to keep generating fresh ideas and provide satisfaction with one's activities. -- Sunidhi Chauhan
Instead of generating either unnecessary alarm or a false sense of security regarding these fundamental issues, the best course is to empower people with the truth. -- Dick Thornburgh
The machine itself has begun to do the work of revolution. The State is now generating forces that will accomplish what no revolutionaries could accomplish by themselves. -- Charles A. Reich
Science is clearly one of the most profound methods that humans have yet devised for discovering truth, while religion remains the single greatest force for generating meaning. -- Ken Wilber
Life is not just eating, drinking, television and cinema...The human mind must be creative, must be self-generating ; it cannot depend on just gadgets to amuse itself. -- Lee Kuan Yew
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The spark of eros provides color and flavor to delight in our sensuality. Without generating this creative juice, many people feel uninspired and dry in their lives. -- John Friend
It is difficult to systematically beat the market. But it is not difficult to systematically throw money down a rat hole by generating commissions and other costs. -- Michael Jensen
We have been getting rich by depleting all our natural stocks - water, hydrocarbons, forests, rivers, fish and arable land - and not by generating renewable flows. -- Joseph J. Romm
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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I think we need to simplify our tax code, but not as a way of generating revenue, as a way of making our tax code more growth- friendly. -- Marco Rubio
If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting. -- John Cleese
The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope. -- Vince Cable
Most "original" ideas aren't completely original, but instead are the result of two basic methods for generating ideas: problems in search of solutions and solutions in search of problems. -- Barry Nalebuff
Barack Obama seems intent on enrolling more people on food stamps. Mitt Romney's focus is going to be on generating more jobs that will make food-stamps unnecessary for them. -- Mike Huckabee
Always hedge your bets. That's how I do it. I lay all my bets on what I can contribute, and suffer no illusions that I'm generating stuff by myself. -- Dan Harmon
The government's Small Business Administration reports that small businesses represent 99% of all employers in the U.S. and are responsible for generating well over half of new jobs created. -- Ellen Tauscher
The efforts of apologists to find genuinely distinguished modern scientists who are religious have an air of desperation, generating the unmistakably hollow sound or bottoms of barrels being scraped. -- Richard Dawkins
Obviously generating revenue is what this is all about anymore, which is sad, but again, you have to find ways to make it work. But, yeah, that's certainly intriguing. -- Joe Torre
A master's (an artist's) Modus Vivendi is to guide his creative self on the path of generating ideas, in a synergistic work resonating with the client's needs and Universe inspiration. -- VIRGIL PROFEANU
When you're generating your own stuff, you can never have too much money around, because you've already sacrificed so much and cut your budget so much that everything's taking a hit. -- Katie Aselton
Scaling back the U.S. fleet of 14 nuclear-armed submarines to eight would maintain a robust deterrent at sea while generating billions in savings and easing pressure on the Navy's shipbuilding budget. -- Mike Quigley
I had accumulated some capital and was at an age at which I was interested in generating income. But even though I was risk averse, I was interested in growth stocks. -- James MacArthur
We're talking about a prison-industrial complex. We're talking about a war on drugs that's generating unprecedented levels of incarcerated folk. We're talking about dilapidated housing. We're talking about joblessness and underemployment. -- Cornel West
It doesn't matter what is true; it only matters what people believe is true... You are what the media define you to be. [Greenpeace] became a myth and a myth-generating machine. -- Paul Watson
We listened to a lot of Rolling Stones and Beatles records when we were recording. They were really good at not playing loud, but generating really big sounds out of everything. -- Mike Lowry
There is no question that Iraq is one of the main problems. You'd have to be blind not to see what a magnet and generating force it's become for terrorist groups. -- Otto Schily
I'm widest awake as a writer doing something new, engaged in a process I'm not sure I can finish, generating at the edge of my powers. Some people bungee jump; I write. -- Barbara Kingsolver
The three major mother gods of the Eastern populations seemed to be generating and destroying entities at the same time; both goddesses of life and fertility as well as goddesses of death. -- Sigmund Freud

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