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- A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something. ~ Frank Capra
- A truly creative person rids him or herself of all self-imposed limitations. ~ Gerald G. Jampolsky
- Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty — as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it. ~ Florence E. King
- Creative activity could be described as a type of learning process where teacher and pupil are located in the same individual. ~ Arthur Koestler
- Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. ~ George Lois
- Creativity involves breaking out of established patterns in order to look at things in a different way. ~ Edward De Bono
- Creativity is a highfalutin’ word for the work I have to do between now and Tuesday. ~ Ray Kroc
- Creativity is inventing, experimenting, growing, taking risks, breaking rules, making mistakes, and having fun.~ Mary Lou Cook
- Creativity is the sudden cessation of stupidity. ~ Edwin H. Land
- Creativity means believing you have greatness. ~ Wayne Dyer
- Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties. ~ Erich Fromm
- Even the best writer has to erase sometimes. ~ Spanish Proverb
- Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements. ~ Alfonso X
- I do not seek. I find. ~ Pablo Picasso
- I must create a system or be enslaved by another man’s; I will not reason and compare: my business is to create. ~ William Blake
- It is better to create than to learn! Creating is the essence of life. ~ Julius Caesar
- It is wise to learn; it is God-like to create. ~ John Saxe
- It seems safe to say that significant discovery, really creative thinking, does not occur with regard to problems about which the thinker is lukewarm. ~ Mary Henle
- That which builds is better than that which is built. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The chief enemy of creativity is good taste. ~ Pablo Picasso
- The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. ~ Carl Jung
- The essential part of creativity is not being afraid to fail. ~ Edwin H. Land
- The greatest genius will never be worth much if he pretends to draw exclusively from his own resources. ~ Goethe
- The legs are the wheels of creativity. ~ Albert Einstein
- The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. ~ Albert Einstein
- The writer may very well serve a movement of history as its mouthpiece, but he cannot of course create it. ~ Karl Marx
- There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity. ~ Sylvia Ashton Warner
- Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. ~ Philippus A. Paracelsus
- To create something you must be something. ~ Goethe
- True creativity often starts where language ends. ~ Arthur Koestler
- We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
- We try not to have ideas, preferring accidents. To create, you must empty yourself of every artistic thought. ~ Gilbert George
- Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. ~ Brian Aldiss
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- A deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple. ~ French Proverb
- Married couples are well suited when both partners usually feel the need for a quarrel at the same time. ~ Jean Rostand
- As far as I’m concerned, love means fighting, big fat lies, and a couple of slaps across the face. ~ Edith Piaf
- Bill and Hillary Clinton are the most investigated couple in American history – now the most thoroughly exonerated couple in American history. ~ Paul Begala
- Come, let’s be a comfortable couple and take care of each other! How glad we shall be, that we have somebody we are fond of always, to talk to and sit with. ~ Charles Dickens
- I just don’t know a couple that’s been married more than three years that doesn’t annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes. ~ Patricia Heaton
- I think more and more people want to live alone. You can be a couple without being in each other’s pockets. I don’t see why you have to share the same bathroom. ~ Jeanne Moreau
- I think that enduring, committed love between married couples, along with raising children, is the noblest act anyone can aspire to. It is not written about very much. ~ Nicholas Sparks
- I wanted to be the kind of woman who would attract a certain kind of man that I could respect. That was my thinking. It had to do with the kind of couple I would be a part of. ~ Lisa Kudrow
- If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you’d have a lot of overlapping. ~ Mignon Mclaughlin
- In a couple, sometimes, one or both people have to give up their personal life, dreams and ambitions for the good of the family. ~Monica Bellucci
- I’ve stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection! ~ Salma Hayek
- Man and wife, Coupled together for the sake of strife.~ Charles Churchill
- Marriage is an institution and that’s where a couple finishes up. ~ Les Dawson
- Married couples tell each other a thousand things without talking. ~ Chinese Proverb
- Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I was three. ~ Billie Holiday
- On rare occasions one does hear of a miraculous case of a married couple falling in love after marriage, but on close examination it will be found that it is a mere adjustment to the inevitable. ~ Emma Goldman
- There’s one fool at least in every married couple. ~ Henry Fielding
- Those two are a fastidious couple. She’s fast and he’s hideous. ~ Henny Youngman
- To be in a couple, do you have to put your single self on a shelf? ~ Sarah Jessica Parker
- You can tell how long a couple has been married by whether they are on their first, second or third bottle of Tabasco. ~ Bruce Bye
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- A few moments of misplaced values can mean a lifetime of regret. ~ Author Unknown
- A gypsy only tells the truth once in his life but he regrets it afterwards. ~ Gypsy Proverb
- Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions, “If I had my life to live over, I’d do it all the same.” ~ Joan McIntosh
- All of the Earth’s treasures can’t bring back a lost moment. ~ French Proverb
- Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest. ~ Chi K’ang
- Better by far you should forget and smile, than that you should remember and be sad. ~ Christina Rosetti
- Better to prevent than regret. ~ Salvadoran Proverb
- Better to sell with regret than to keep with regret. ~ Swiss Proverb
- Between tomorrow’s dream and yesterday’s regret is today’s opportunity. ~ Author Unknown
- Failure is never as scary as regret. ~ Author Unknown
- For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: “It might have been!” ~ John Greenleaf Whittier
- He who hesitates, regrets. ~ Albanian Proverb
- I demolish my bridges behind me… then there is no choice but forward. ~ Firdtjof Nansen
- I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent. ~ Publilius Syrus
- I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ~ Nathan Hale
- If we always look back, we lose sight of what’s ahead. ~ Justin Sims
- If you are going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late. ~ Henny Youngman
- It’s better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret. ~ Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- It’s not what you are; it’s what you don’t become that hurts. ~ Oscar Levant
- Judgement comes from experience, and great judgement comes from bad experience. ~ Robert Packwood
- Keep off your thoughts from things that are past and done; for thinking of the past wakes regret and pain. ~ Arthur Waley
- Let the dead Past bury its dead! ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Let’s not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that’s gone. ~ William Shakespeare
- Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. ~ Arthur Miller
- My one regret in life is that I’m not someone else. ~ Woody Allen
- Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last. ~ Miguel De Cervantes
- Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience. ~ Victoria Holt
- Nobody who ever gave his best, regretted it. ~ George Halas
- One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late. ~ Agatha Christie
- Only in your imagination can you revise. ~ Fay Wray
- People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, and then repent. ~ Bob Dylan
- Perform good deeds; you will not regret them. ~ Moroccan Proverb
- Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ~ Sidney J. Harris
- Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ~ Arthur Brisbane
- Regret, like a tail, comes at the end. ~ Ethiopian Proverb
- Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ~ Charles Dickens
- Regretting the past is like chasing after the wind. ~ Russian Proverb
- Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ~ Ambrose Bierce
- The best of prophets of the future is the past. ~ Lord Byron
- The biggest thing in today’s sorrow is the memory of yesterday’s joy. ~ Kahlil Gibran
- The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. ~ Harriet Beecher Stowe
- The first half of life is spent in longing for the second, the second half in regretting the first. ~ French Proverb
- The man, who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret. ~ Henri Frederic Amiel
- The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret. ~ Leo Buscaglia
- The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy. ~ Germaine Greer
- The only things you regret are the things you didn’t do. ~ Michael Curtiz
- The only use of knowledge of the past is to equip us for the present. ~ Alfred North Whitehead
- The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but… what we ought to avoid. ~ Jose Ortega Y Gasset
- The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor. ~ William Hazlitt
- To regret deeply is to live afresh. ~ Henry David Thoreau
- Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday. ~ John Wayne
- We can’t afford to waste tears on might-have-beens. We need to turn the tears into sweat that can take us to what can be. ~ Denis Waitley
- We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow. ~ Fulton Oursler
- We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ~ Jim Rohn
- Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? ~ Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- When you can think of yesterday without regret and tomorrow without fear, you are near contentment. ~ Author Unknown
- You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see. ~ Richard Martin Stern
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- A well adjusted person is one who makes the same mistake twice without getting nervous. ~ Jane Heard
- An old dog can’t get used to chains. ~ Russian Proverb
- Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment. ~ John Dewey
- Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself. ~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be. ~ German Proverb
- He who does not regularly put on clean socks will never get used to circus life.~ Chinese Proverb
- If you live in the river you should make friends with the crocodile.~ Indian Proverb
- It’s hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty. ~ George Burns
- Learn to adjust yourself to the conditions you have to endure, but make a point of trying to alter or correct conditions so that they are most favorable to you.~ William Frederick Book
- Life is not fair; get used to it.~ Bill Gates
- Marriage is like a hot bath. Once you get used to it, it’s not so hot.~ Author Unknown
- No one is so tall that he never needs to stretch, and no one is so short that he never needs to stoop.~ Danish Proverb
- Nothing is difficult when you get used to it.~ Indonesian Proverb
- Nothing is wonderful when you get used to it.~ Edgar Watson Howe
- Sometimes, occasions occur in life which demand you to be a little foolish in order to skillfully extricate yourself.~ Francois De La Rochefoucauld
- Suit yourself to the times.~ German Proverb
- Take the world as it is, not as it ought to be.~ German Proverb
- They that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils. ~ Francis Bacon
- We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided.~ Alexander Hamilton
- You can’t direct the wind, but you can adjust your sails.~ German Proverb
- You can get used to anything — even hell.~ Russian Proverb
- One learns to itch where one can scratch. ~ Ernest Bramah
- There are no conditions to which a man cannot become accustomed. ~ Count Leo Tolstoy
- To the man who only has a hammer, everything he encounters begins to look like a nail. ~ Abraham H. Maslow
- We must make the best of those ills which cannot be avoided. ~ Alexander Hamilton
- You can’t blow against the wind. ~ Lithuanian Proverb
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Posted by nabil medawar in Famous Quotes and Sayings, Great One-line Quotes., Inspirational Quotes, Quotations, Words of wisdom, tags: govern, governing, government, governments, people, power, public, rule
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- A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to take it all away. ~ Barry Goldwater
- A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top. ~ James Reston
- All good government must begin at home. ~ H. R. Haweis
- An educated people can be easily governed. ~ Frederick II
- Being nice to governments doesn’t work, they are such lying bastards. ~ Joy Baluch
- By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more. ~ Albert Camus
- Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don’t think. ~ Author Unknown
- Every country has the government it deserves. ~ Joseph De Maistre
- Everybody wants to eat at the government’s table, but nobody wants to do the dishes. ~ Werner Finck
- Fear is the foundation of most government. ~ John Adams
- Fire, water and government know nothing of mercy. ~ Albanian Proverb
- Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys. ~ P.J. O’Rourke
- Good government is the outcome of private virtue. ~ John Jay Chapman
- Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved — commitment to a scenario. ~ Jean Baudrillard
- Government does not solve problems; it subsidizes them. ~ Ronald Reagan
- Government is the great fiction through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else. ~ Frederic Bastiat
- Governments never learn. Only people learn. ~ Milton Friedman
- Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home. ~ William Ewart Gladstone
- I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts. ~ Will Rogers
- In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom; we have to say, Like People like Government. ~ Thomas Carlyle
- It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. ~ Voltaire
- It is easy to rule over the good. ~ Titus Maccius Plautus
- It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most. ~ Walter Lippmann
- It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right. ~ William E. Gladstone
- It is very easy to accuse a government of imperfection, for all mortal things are full of it. ~ Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
- It may be true that you can’t fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country. ~ William J. Durant
- It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith
- Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government. ~ Milton Friedman
- No government is safe unless fortified by goodwill. ~ Cornelius Nepos
- Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence. ~ John Foster Dulles
- Office without pay makes thieves. ~ German Proverb
- Only fools are glad when governments change. ~ Romanian Proverb
- Only when a new government comes to power do you learn to appreciate the values of the old one. ~ Myanmar Proverb
- Our government… teaches the whole people by its example. If the government becomes the lawbreaker, it breeds contempt for law; it invites every man to become a law unto himself; it invites anarchy. ~ Louis Brandeis
- Public instruction should be the first object of government. ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
- Remember that a government big enough to give you everything you want is also big enough to take away everything you have. ~ Davy Crockett
- The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people. ~ William O. Douglas
- The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation. ~ Bill Murray
- The government is us; we are the government, you and I. ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- The government must always be a step ahead of the popular movement. ~ Count Boytzwnburg
- The less government we have the better. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
- The object of government in peace and in war is not the glory of rulers or of races, but the happiness of the common man. ~ William Henry Beveridge
- The point to remember is what government gives it must first take away. ~ John S. Caldwell
- The supply of government exceeds demand. ~ Lewis H. Lapham
- The whole duty of government is to prevent crime and to preserve contracts. ~ Lord Melbourne
- The will of the people shall be the basis of the authority of government...~ Eleanor Roosevelt
- The worst thing in the world next to anarchy, is government. ~ Henry Ward Beecher
- Though the people support the government; the government should not support the people. ~ Grover Cleveland
- To govern is to choose. To appear to be unable to choose is to appear to be unable to govern. ~ Nigel Lawson
- Truth is the glue that holds government together. ~ Gerald R. Ford
- We are imperfect. We cannot expect perfect government. ~ William Howard Taft
- We have the best government that money can buy. ~ Mark Twain
- When government accepts responsibility for people, then people no longer take responsibility for themselves. ~ George Pataki
- When the government has no ears to listen with, then she has no head for governing. ~ Danish Proverb
- When you have a good government the grass will grow over your troubles. ~ Japanese Proverb
- Whenever you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship. ~ Harry S. Truman
- You can do nothing about governments and winter. ~ Slovenian Proverb
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