{"quotes":[{"text":"People who don’t construe their life and don’t frame their own tale, stay on the sidelines, remain only an act without a story and turn into an 'empty box'. Out-of-the-box thinking and inventiveness remains then merely wishfull thinking. ( 'Everybody his story' ).","author":"Erik Pevernagie","tags":["act","box","construe","empty","frame","inventiveness","life","out-of-the-box-thinking","people","remain","sidelines","stay","story","tale","turn-into","wishful-thinking"],"id":21288,"author_id":"Erik+Pevernagie"},{"text":"The metaphysical poetry of our innovative life springs from the aesthetic, scenic, and systematic processes of inventiveness, the creative impulse of an active mind generating aesthetical intuition.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["identity","identity","intuition","inventiveness","memoir","memoir-writing","mind","mind-power","self-awareness","self-awareness","self-knowledge","self-knowledge","story-of-my-life","thinking","writers-on-thinking","writers-on-writing","writing"],"id":75705,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"Seven Ways To Get Ahead in Business:1. Be forward thinking 2. Be inventive, and daring3. Do the right thing4. Be honest and straight forward5. Be willing to change, to learn, to grow6. Work hard and be yourself7. Lead by example.","author":"Germany Kent","tags":["attitude","be-daring","be-honest","be-straight-forward","be-willing-to-change","be-you","be-yourself","be-yourself-inspirational","be-yourself-original","be-yourself","be-yourself","business","business-advice","business-culture","business-leaders","business-minded","business-minded-people","business","business-success","change","daring","do-the-right-thing","do-whats-right","don-t-cheat","forward-direction","forward-momentum","forward-movement","forward","forward-thinkers","forward-thinking","germany-kent","germany-kent","germany-kent","get-ahead-in-business","grow","growth","growth-life","growth-process","growth","honest-with-yourself","honesty-from-within","honesty-integrity","honesty","hope-guru","independent","independent-thinking","independent-thought","independent-women","inspirational-speaker","inventive","inventiveness","lead","lead-by-example","lead-from-within","leaders","leadership","leadership-characteristics","leadership-development","leadership","leadership-styles","leadership-traits","learn","learning-by-doing","learning-from-mistakes","learning-from-others","learning-lessons","learning-process","learning","learning-the-truth","life-lessons-life","life-lessons-life-reason","life-lessons","life-lessons-value-of-life-truth","life-lessons-wisdom","make-changes","mindset","motivate","motivational","motivational-enlightenment","motivational-speaker","motivational-speaker","personal-development","personal-development-goals","personal-development-insights","personal-development","personal-development-today","personal-growth","personal-growth-personal","personal-growth","personal-growth","powerful-people","powerful-women","risk-taker","seven-tips","seven-ways","stay-the-course","straight-forward","strategies","succeed","success","success-in-business","success-in-life","success","success-self-improvement","success-strategies","successful-living","successful-people","tactics","take-a-stand","take-a-step","take-action","take-actions","take-actions-on-your-dreams","take-chances","take-risks","take-the-lead","the-hope-guru","tips-and-tricks","today","today-is-a-great-new-beginning","today-tomorrow","top-seven","transformational-speaker","work-hard","work-hard-and-smart","work-hard-for-your-dreams","work-hard","work-hard","work-harder","work-harder-for-your-dreams"],"id":100673,"author_id":"Germany+Kent"},{"text":"YOU COULD LOCK the Gasman in a padded cell with some dental floss and a bowl of Jell-O, and he'd find a way to make something to explode.","author":"James Patterson","tags":["inventiveness","talent"],"id":116873,"author_id":"James+Patterson"},{"text":"Abilene possessed greater vision, perhaps because it possessed little else.","author":"H.W. Brands","tags":["creativity","inventiveness","openness","status-quo"],"id":152850,"author_id":"H.W.+Brands"},{"text":"Inventiveness depends upon two habits of mind, which we can adopt and develop: attention andcuriosity.Attention means paying attention.....Curiosity means just that. Endlessly curious. Endlessly asking questions. Endlessly wanting to knowhow, and why?","author":"Richard N. Bolles","tags":["curiosity","inventiveness","question"],"id":157612,"author_id":"Richard+N.+Bolles"},{"text":"Humankind’s struggle against a hostile environment causes people throughout the ages to deploy their full armory of logic, training, strategy, imagination, inventiveness, and creativity. We are born with the natural ability to strategize. The most influential tool in humankind’s intellectual tool kit is the ability to regenerate a sense of unruffled alertness, to establish a poised stance that leads to intuitive discoveries generated by the conscious and unconscious mind constantly filtering a plethora of data, selecting critical facts, and producing elegant solutions to seemingly insoluble dilemmas.","author":"Kilroy J. Oldster","tags":["creative-thinking","imagination","imagination","intuition","inventiveness","logic","logical-thinking","strategic-planning","strategic-thinking","strategy","thinking","thinking-process"],"id":176391,"author_id":"Kilroy+J.+Oldster"},{"text":"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we. ","author":"Ken Kesey","tags":["boundaries","craft","creative-process","dullness","familiarity","inventiveness","knowledge","limitations","writing"],"id":200076,"author_id":"Ken+Kesey"},{"text":"With cold eyes and indifferent mind the spectators regard the work. Connoissers admire the 'skill' (as one admires a tightrope walker), enjoy the 'quality of painting' (as one enjoys a pasty). But hungry souls go hungry away. The vulgar herd stroll through the rooms and pronounce the pictures 'nice' or 'splendid.' Those who could speak have said nothing, those who could hear have heard nothing.","author":"Wassily Kandinsky","tags":["art","artists","creativity","imagination","inventiveness","originality","painting"],"id":235112,"author_id":"Wassily+Kandinsky"},{"text":"One of the dumbest things you were ever taught was to write what you know. Because what you know is usually dull. Remember when you first wanted to be a writer? Eight or ten years old, reading about thin-lipped heroes flying over mysterious viny jungles toward untold wonders? That's what you wanted to write about, about what you didn't know. So. What mysterious time and place don't we know?', December 31, 1989)].","author":"Ken Kesey","tags":["boundaries","craft","creative-process","dullness","familiarity","inventiveness","knowledge","limitations","writing"],"id":285131,"author_id":"Ken+Kesey"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":12,"pages":2,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}