Barriers to Creativity

Lack of self-confidence is the biggest barrier to creativity.

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Beyond Idle Chatter

Talking and eloquence are not the same: to speak, and to speak well, are two things. A fool may talk, but a wise man speaks.

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Know What You're Saying

They that cannot speak clearly, seldom clearly understand what to speak.

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Civil Persuasion

[C]ivility, which I take to be a strong virtue and not simply wimpishness, requires that we not try to cram our beliefs down anybody's throats, whether ...

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Hoping Your Spouse Reads Minds

When Christian musician Michael Card got married in 1982, he and Susan expected smooth sailing. But it wasn't long before they started running into ...

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The Art of Careful Conversation

Be humble and gentle in your conversation; and of few words, I charge you; but always pertinent when you speak.

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The Power of Deeds

Major Osipovich, an air force pilot for the former USSR, planned to give a talk at his children's school about peace. But he would need time off during ...

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A Word Fitly Spoken

I spoke

Words fell

Aimlessly on ears.

Later

One said,

"Your word--

It helped

That Day."

I turned

Wondering--

Forgot I said

That word.

Let me speak

Those ...

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Transcript of the Heart

In commenting on the success of his work The Saints' Everlasting Rest, Baxter said: "And I found that the transcript of the heart hath the greatest ...

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The Offence of Christ

I believe it to be a grave mistake to present Christianity as something charming and popular with no offence in it. We cannot blink the fact that gentle ...

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