Provocative Quotes

Youre only given a little spark of madness. You mustnt lose it.

Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination.
Jonah Lehrer

Creative synthesis has a basic, bisociative pattern : the sudden interlocking of two previously unrelated skills or matrices of thought.

Your big opportunity may be right where you are now.

Between stimulus and response, there is a space. In that space lies our freedom and power to choose our response. In our response lies our growth and happiness.

The world keeps changing. It is one of the paradoxes of success that the things and the ways which got you where you are, are seldom those that keep you there.
Charles Handy

How you do, not what you do, is an expression of who you are.
James Blackburn

A leader is like a shepherd...staying behind the flock, letting the most nimble go out ahead, whereupon the others follow, not realizing that all along they are being directed from behind.

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
Harold Wilson

Less clothes, more sexually provocative activities, more high-risk activities are gonna get attention.
Parry Aftab

My mouth is my biggest source of pleasure - singing, conversing, eating, and giving kisses to the person who deserves them.
Shakira

In every seed lies the promise of forest.

I think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.

I think the first album cover was considered most provocative. I think that contributed a great deal.
Julie London

I'd been to Memphis before, but we stayed out of Memphis early on in the late 70s for obvious reasons. People were very sensitive about Elvis Presley, and my stage name obviously would be provocative to some people in that area at that time.
Elvis Costello

There was really nothing shocking in what Brigitte did, what was provocative was her natural sensuality.
Roger Vadim

Written poetry is different. Best thing is to see it in performance first, then read it. Performance is more provocative.
Adrian Mitchell

Listen, everyone is entitled to my opinion.

One cannot think crooked and walk straight.

What do you think an artist is? An imbecile who has only eyes if he is a painter, or ears if he is a musician, or a lyre in every chamber of his heart if he is a poet? How could it be possible to feel no interest in other people, and with a cool indifference to detach yourself from the very life which they bring to you so abundantly? No, painting is not done to decorate apartments. It is an instrument of war.

The commonalities of creative thinking, and the psychology of mental drive and excitement, seem to transcend the log ical differences of subject or approach.

Distance education is a huge lecture hall with hundreds of students and minimal interaction. It is time for us to start measuring the quality of learning by more than labels like face-to-face, hybrid, or e-learning.
Darcy Hardy

Think photographs should be provocative and not tell you what you already know. It takes no great powers or magic to reproduce somebody's face in a photograph. The magic is in seeing people in new ways.







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