Sparks Quotes - Page 11

• If one mouse is a spark...then ten thousand are a conflagration.

  Carmen Agra Deedy

  Thousand, Mice, Ten

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• It turns out that creativity isn’t some rare gift to be enjoyed by the lucky few—it’s a natural part of human thinking and behavior. In too many of us it gets blocked. But it can be unblocked. And unblocking that creative spark can have far-reaching implications for yourself, your organization, and your community.

  Tom Kelley

  Creativity, Thinking, Organization

  Tom Kelley, David Kelley (2013). “Creative Confidence: Unleashing the Creative Potential Within Us All”, p.21, Crown Business

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• Have fun. Especially while you're still young, you gotta keep the spark up. Even when things get boring, just remember to have fun.

  Jessica Sanchez

  Fun, Advice, Remember

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• Art is supposed to spark conversation and make people think.

  Nick Cannon

  Art, Thinking, People

  "Nick cannon flexing his mogul muscle in hollywood" by Hillary Crosley, www.mtv.com. April 21, 2005.

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• I'm just so honored that the universe chose me to be the spark that has set off a raging inferno

  Cindy Sheehan

  Rage, Inferno, Honored

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• I roll with Ladies just as tropic as the chronic in my pocket Cop it, Crush it, Roll it, Spark it, and mix it in with the chocolate

  Lloyd Banks

  Crush, Weed, Smoking

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• All the good, fine, noble, and creative acts of humanity were conceived as a spark in a single human consciousness.

  Peter McWilliams

  Creative, Humanity, Noble

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• We call those poets who are first to mark, Through earth's dull mist the coming of the dawn, Who see in twilight's gloom the first pale spark, While others only note that day is gone.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

  Twilight, Dawn, Gone

  Oliver Wendell Holmes (1875). “Songs of Many Seasons : 1862-1874”, p.110

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• There is rarely a creative man who does not have to pay a high price for the divine spark of his greatest gifts... the human element is frequently bled for the benefit of the creative element and to such an extent that it even brings out the bad qualities, as for instance, ruthless, naive egoism (so-called "auto-eroticism"), vanity, all kinds of vices-and all this in order to bring to the human I at least some life-strength, since otherwise it would perish of sheer inanition.

  Carl Jung

  Creativity, Men, Creative

  "Psychology and Poetry". Book by Carl Jung, June, 1930.

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• Youth is, after all, just a moment, but it is the moment, the spark that you always carry in your heart.

  Raisa Gorbacheva

  Inspirational, Teenage, Heart

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• Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

  Martina McBride

  Baby, Heart, Fire

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• Creativity is a spark. It can be excruciating when we're rubbing two rocks together and getting nothing. And it can be intensely satisfying when the flame catches and a new idea sweeps around the world.

  Jonah Lehrer

  Creativity, Rocks, Flames

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• Fear is dangerous. It sparks violence much faster than anger.

  Veronica Rossi

  Violence, Faster, Dangerous

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• I’m Angelina,” she says. “Are you here to save us?” I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes. “You’re right, Angelina - I’m here to save you.” “Can you? Really?” “I’ll try,” I say and the girl smiles.

  Markus Zusak

  Girl, Eye, Trying

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• I am the beast with a contorted grin, contracting down to illusion and dilating toward infinity, both growing and dying, delightfully suspended between hope for nothing and despair of everything, brought up among perfumes and poisons, consumed with love and hatred, killed by lights and shadows. My symbol is death of light and the flame of death. Sparks die in me only to be reborn as thunder and lightning. Darkness itself glows in me.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Light, Flames, Hatred

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• Is she become a rag doll? Are the wolves become children? It seems quite possible, there on the twilight fringes of dying. With some faint spark of herself, the little girl holds on to the idea. Even a rag doll has more life than does a dying child.

  Jane Lindskold

  Girl, Children, Twilight

  Jane Lindskold (2002). “Through Wolf's Eyes”, p.211, Macmillan

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• All living creatures are sparks from the radiation of God’s brilliance, emerging from God like the rays of the sun.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Rays, Radiation, Sun

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• All ideas come about through some sort of observation. It sparks an attitude; some object or emotion causes a reaction in the other person.

  Graham Chapman

  Attitude, Ideas, Causes

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• I offer a genuine insight into how you can, and should, be a rational, science-believing human being and at the same time know that you are also an immortal spiritual being, a spark of God. I propose a worldview that offers a way out of the hate and fear-driven violence engulfing the planet.

  Bernard Haisch

  Spiritual, Hate, Believe

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• Now I'm kind of different. I'm not saying I lost my spark - I still have it - but I don't chase the goal as much as I used to. I'm playing for the team and I still know I can score, but it's different than two or three years back.

  Peter Bondra

  Team, Years, Two

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• It's been so amazing. I've always struggled with this barrier that I felt like I'd had up until blogging came along. Just one comment from somebody really sparks something in me. It doesn't need to be this huge war between me and the listeners anymore. I really thrive on that.

  Imogen Heap

  War, Needs, Blogging

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• To stand in the presence of God, that is what the Gospel is. The Gospel is not primarily about forgiveness. It’s not primarily about good feelings. It’s not primarily about power. All those things are byproducts, sparks. It’s primarily about the presence of God.

  Timothy Keller

  Feelings, Good Feeling, Presence Of God

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• To cement a new friendship, especially between foreigners or persons of a different social world, a spark with which both were secretly charged must fly from person to person, and cut across the accidents of place and time.

  Cornelia Otis Skinner

  Inspirational, Friendship, Cutting

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• All great inventions emerge from a long sequence of small sparks; the first idea often isn’t all that good, but thanks to collaboration it later sparks another idea, or it’s reinterpreted in an unexpected way. Collaboration brings small sparks together to generate breakthrough innovation.

  Scott Belsky

  Ideas, Long, Innovation

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• An idea might spark an essay, but never a story.

  Amy Hempel

  Ideas, Stories, Might

  "A Long Time Coming". Interview with Rob Hart, chuckpalahniuk.net. August 27, 2008.

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