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... vegetable stand into a multibillion-zloty chain train of grocery stores.” —San Diego Business Journal To be well informed, one must read quickly a great number of merely instructive books To be cultivated, ... trailing clouds of veils, undulates to the music of the Ave Maria—with a disco tom-tom backbeat.” —Time Grapevine According to some historians and linguists this was a (perhaps deliberate?) misinterpretation ... huri, plural of haura (dark-eyed woman) It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty every day than to say pretty things from time to time —H...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

... in 1874 24 TOPONYMS 25 ● “In this Chautauqua I would like not to cut any new channels of consciousness but simply dig deeper into old ones that have become silted in with the debris of thoughts ... a pair of proverbial cats in Kilkenny who fought till only their tails were left According to a story, some people in the town of Kilkenny in Ireland enjoyed tying together the tails of two cats ... it, too —Keen James, Lincoln, Rhode Island Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely —L O R D A C T O N (John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton), historian (1834–1902) CHAPTER Toponyms...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

Ngày tải lên: 09/04/2014, 16:22

... patients that remembered the timing of past prodromes, 20 of 44 (45.5%) patients reported that the average time of the onset of a prodrome was less than 24 hours before an HAE attack Meanwhile, 24 of ... reported that, on average, the onset of prodromal symptoms developed greater than 24 hours before HAE symptoms initiate Figure demonstrates these data [7] These data support that prodromal symptoms ... have demonstrated that prodromal symptoms could indeed be a sensitive measure of predicting acute HAE attacks and could possibly be used to initiate therapy before the onset of an acute attack,...

Ngày tải lên: 08/08/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 05/11/2016, 17:25

... chi tiết từ đó) The meeting had to be postponed because of storm 2 Các bạn di chuột vào cụm từ để biết chức cụm câu: The meeting had to be postponed because of storm 3 Tại câu lại dịch vậy? - ... must… “modal verb +be + past participle” - “because of + noun/ noun phrase có nghĩa “because” – vì/ theo sau because mệnh đề (clause) Và “because” liên từ (conjunction) “because of giới từ (preposition) ... “had to be postponed” động từ câu có hình thức bị động động từ khuyết thiếu (Modal verb) “had to Trong “had to hình thức khứ “have to để diễn tả việc xảy khứ Có cấu trúc bị động “had to +be...

Ngày tải lên: 10/03/2014, 21:20

... connections between ideas that appear to others to be far apart: the wider the apparent distance the greater the degree of creative thinking involved Creativity is the faculty of mind and spirit that ... models waiting to be used by inventors In the box below is a quiz, which you might like to attempt to answer now: QUIZ List specific inventions that were (or might have been) suggested to creative ... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 18/02/2014, 03:20

... to be with then it is most likely that people are going to want to talk to you If you look cold, closed, self centred and stand offish, people are not going to go out of their way to speak to ... practise and preparation you too can be what ever you want to be in life and that includes being a master communicator When you go into any conversation from now on, I want you to really listen hard ... the best way to say NO! In a firm, yet polite voice say: “No I will not be able to that for you” Also, if you want to say the reasons why, keep it short and sweet “No I will not be able to that...

Ngày tải lên: 18/03/2014, 19:57

... expectations of others People will treat me as the “new and revised version” thus forcing me to continue to be that person When it’s not to my benefit to be shy, I try my best to stretch myself out of ... more to be desired You’re going to run into people that are intense and are great to unload your burdens on in exchange for great advice and guidance, but that may not be the person you want to ... like a raging fire in your belly that you just had to vent to get it out, they often feel that his situation is either too big or too juicy for them to keep But the danger of airing your dirty laundry...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 00:20

... connections between ideas that appear to others to be far apart: the wider the apparent distance the greater the degree of creative thinking involved Creativity is the faculty of mind and spirit that ... models waiting to be used by inventors In the box below is a quiz, which you might like to attempt to answer now: QUIZ List specific inventions that were (or might have been) suggested to creative ... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 28/06/2014, 21:20

Ngày tải lên: 06/08/2014, 18:20

... connections between ideas that appear to others to be far apart: the wider the apparent distance the greater the degree of creative thinking involved Creativity is the faculty of mind and spirit that ... models waiting to be used by inventors In the box below is a quiz, which you might like to attempt to answer now: QUIZ List specific inventions that were (or might have been) suggested to creative ... the face of a statue of the Buddha He felt that he could see a resemblance between the look of Buddha’s face and how he imagined the front of the motorbike would be Having spent the rest of the...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... problem remember to widen your span of relevance Look at the technologies available in fields other than your own, possibly in those that may appear to others to be so far removed as to be irrelevant ... Christopher Milne once unveiled a bronze statue of Winnie the Pooh, the toy bear that became both the joy and the bane of his life Milne and his father took the name ‘Pooh’ from a swan that had ... you to have a prepared mind? You have to be purposeful in that you are seeking an answer or solution to some problem You have become exceptionally sensitive to any occurrence that might be relevant...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... impossible to be totally objective We tend to see what we know already That does leave some creative possibilities For, as Gustave Flaubert wrote, ‘There is an unexplored side to everything, because instead ... should aim to retain throughout your life that eager desire to see, learn or know Curiosity is the mind on tiptoe Creative thinkers tend to have a habit of curiosity that leads them to give searching ... attention to what interests them Thinking is a way of trying to find out for yourself If you always blindly accepted what others told you there would be nothing to be curious about One way to develop...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... constellations of links and connections It is this coming together of elements hitherto unrelated – the interaction of unlikely bedfellows – that makes a notebook of this nature a veritable seedbed of new ... essential prerequisites for being a good listener Your priority must always be to achieve a grasp of the nature and significance of what is being said to you Ask questions to elicit the full meaning ... The words of Francis Clifford, writer of 15 novels, apply to all books likely to be useful to a creative thinker ‘A writer’s task’, he said, ‘is not to spell everything out It is really to imply...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... on the threshold of all the temples of science: “The greatest derangement of the mind is to believe in something because one wishes it to be so.” ’ Getting the balance right between imaginative ... people can be especially helpful to you They can sometimes alert you to the fact that you are assuming that something is the case without being aware that you are doing so ‘Why you believe that? ’ ... independent of the subject of any conversation I may be carrying on – continues its course in that department of my brain which is devoted to music Sometimes it takes a preparatory form – that is,...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... useful it is to be able to redefine the problem At the end of the 18th century, Jenner took the first step towards ending the scourge of smallpox when he turned from the question of why people ... process that leads to genuine creative work But having the right attitude of expectancy, together with a measure of hope and confidence, certainly seems to pay off It is no good trying to shine ... solution that comes to mind’ or ‘Am I making any unconscious assumptions?’ This phase corresponds to Wallas’s ‘preparation’, but that label is misleading because we may revert quite often to this...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... establish, wisely to prescribe and honestly to be aware – these are the true aims and duties of criticism To find fault is easy; to better may be difficult Plutarch 92 Art of Creative Thinking 1-134:Creative ... feel that being persistent is a difficult task, think of the bee A red clover blossom contains less than one-eighth of a grain of sugar: 7,000 grains are required to make pound of honey A bee, ... Petrarch ‘Bees would have no credit unless they transformed it into something different and better.’ The last key in the bunch is often the one to open the lock There must be a beginning of any great...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... means that you are bound to feel bewildered, confused, even frustrated at times – often for quite long periods You will be tempted to give up But it is encouraging to know that even professional ... edge of real success As implementation is part of creative thinking you have to develop the product yourself, at least up to a certain point Beyond that point it obviously has to be much more of ... ‘Then why not an outline of the story first?’ he was often asked ‘Surely that would be simpler?’ He replied, Of course it would But if I did that, then there would be no fun in writing it And...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21

... nothing It is not what happens to you in life that matters but how you respond The creative response is to transform bad things into good, problems into opportunities Remember the Arab proverb, ‘You ... ‘You should never finish building your house’ It is beginnings and the unfinished work to be done that excites your creative mind Endings belong to God Fortunately for us, they are not our business ... positive attitude to your Depth Mind? Do you expect it to work for you? Where possible, you build into your plans time to ‘sleep on it’, so as to give your Depth Mind an opportunity to contribute?...

Ngày tải lên: 10/08/2014, 07:21