"Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something..." - Quote by Maya Angelou
Creativity or talent, like electricity, is something I don't understand but something I'm able to harness and use.
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“I, with millions of other Americans, have the same dream Martin Luther King Jr. had; when I wake up I wish some of the things I dreamt would be true. I wish that little black and white boys and girls would hold hands without being shocked at their nearness to each other and say in a natural way, "we have overcome.”
“I refuse to allow any man-made differences to separate me from any other human beings.”
“There is a world of difference between facts and the truth. You can have so many facts that you don't deal with the truth. You never get to the truth. You have the places where, the people who, the times when, the reasons why, the methods how - blah blah. And never get to the human truth. The human truth is as elusive as the air. And as important as the air.”
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“The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.”
“Finding a good script is really difficult and the scariest thing of all is when they say about a script that's not right, "we will fix it.." It's like before you get on the Titanic and you see a big hole. In process, it's too late.”
“It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception.”
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“It is impossible that a genius - at least a literary genius - can ever be discovered by his intimates; they are so close to him that he is out of focus to them and they can't get at his proportions; they can't perceive that there is any considerable difference between his bulk and their own.”
“With one more talent one frequently stands with greater instability than with one less, as a table stands better on three legs than on four.”
“Opportunity shies away from need, but opportunity is attracted by talent and ability. What you don't want to happen is opportunity to turn cool on you. You don't want to offend opportunity. So the only thing you present to opportunity is ability, performance and skill. Don't present need to opportunity.”