Wordsmith Wednesday
A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one. ~ Mary Kay Ash
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club. ~Jack London
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The society based on production is only productive, not creative. ~Albert Camus
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We're bringing Wordsmith Wednesday to you a little early this week in honor of Martin Luther King, Jr., pastor, PhD, Nobel Prize winner and well-known leader of nonviolent demonstrations during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s and 1960s.
Dr. King was the youngest man to have received the Nobel Peace Prize. When notified of his selection, he announced that he would turn over the prize money of $54,123 to the furtherance of the Civil Rights Movement.
On the evening of April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of his motel room in Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to lead a protest march in sympathy with striking garbage workers of that city, he was assassinated. Today we observe his birthday of January 15. He would have been 82 years old.
Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 - April 4, 1968)
Now, I say to you today my friends, even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream. It is a dream deeply rooted in the American dream. I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: we hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal. ~Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Edward de Bono is a physician, author and inventor. He is known as the originator of the term 'lateral thinking,' and he wrote the book Six Thinking Hats.
There is no doubt that creativity is the most important human resource of all. Without creativity, there would be no progress, and we would be forever repeating the same patterns. ~Edward de Bono
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Get a good idea and stay with it. Dog it, and work at it until it’s done right. ~Walt Disney
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Lee Iacocca, best known as the CEO of Chrysler from 1979 - 1992
You can have brilliant ideas, but if you can't get them across, your ideas won't get you anywhere. ~ Lee Iacocca.
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Paula Poundstone, stand-up comedienne
Adults are always asking little kids what they want to be when they grow up because they're looking for ideas. ~Paula Poundstone
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A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. Ideas have endurance without death. ~John F. Kennedy