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«I don't understand people who like to work and talk about it like it was some sort of goddamn duty. Doing nothing feels like floating on warm water to me. Delightful, perfect.»
«Fragments came floating into his mind like bits of wood drifting down a stream, and he fished them out and fitted them together.»
«Creativity is a lot like looking at the world through a kaleidoscope. You look at a set of elements, the same ones everyone else sees, but then reassemble those floating bits and pieces into an enticing new possibility. Effective leaders are able to»
Author: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
(Consultant, Speaker)
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Creativity
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bits, bits and pieces, but then, effective, elements, entices, enticing, everyone else, floating, kaleidoscope, leaders, looking at, One Piece, pieces, possibility, reassemble, reassembles, reassembling
«Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube. There are some things one would rather have done than do.»
Author: Edward Abbey
(Writer)
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canyon, canyons, climbing, floating, grand, Grand Canyon, inner tube, The Tube, tube, tubes
«Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky.»
«And all should cry, Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair! / Weave a circle round him thrice, / And close your eyes with holy dread, / For he on honey-dew hath fed, / And drunk the milk of Paradise.»
Author: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(Critic, Philosopher, Poet)
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circle, circle round, dew, dread, Fed, flashing, floating, milk, thrice, weave
«BABE or BABY, n. A misshapen creature of no particular age, sex, or condition, chiefly remarkable for the violence of the sympathies and antipathies it excites in others, itself without sentiment or emotion. There have been famous babes; for example, little Moses, from whose adventure in the bulrushes the Egyptian hierophants of seven centuries before doubtless derived their idle tale of the child Osiris being preserved on a floating lotus leaf.Ere babes were invented The girls were contended. Now man is tormented Until to buy babes he has squandered His money. And so I have pondered This thing, and thought may be'T were better that Baby The First had been eagled or condored. --Ro Amil»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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Amil, antipathies, babes, bulrush, bulrushes, contended, derived, doubtless, Egyptian, floating, misshapen, Osiris, pondered, squandered, sympathies, tormented
«Is not disease the rule of existence? There is not a lily pad floating on the river but has been riddled by insects. Almost every shrub and tree has its gall, oftentimes esteemed its chief ornament and hardly to be distinguished from the fruit. If misery loves company, misery has company enough. Now, at midsummer, find me a perfect leaf or fruit.»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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distinguished, esteemed, floating, gall, insects, leaf, lily, midsummer, oftentimes, ornament, pad, padded, riddled, shrub, shrubs