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Isaac Bashevis Singer
A Polish-American writer in Yiddish, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1978.
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Just as the sound of a tree crashing in the forest is unheard if nobody is there to hear it, so creative ideas vanish unless there is a receptive audience to record and implement them.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
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If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.
John Cage
An American composer and music theorist. A pioneer of indeterminacy in music and one of the leading figures of the post-war avant-garde.
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Creativity cannot be understood by looking only at the people who appear to make it happen. Many discoveries would be inconceivable without the prior knowledge, without the intellectual and social network that stimulated creative thinking, and without the social mechanisms that recognized and spread the innovations.
Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
A Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to productivity.
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