The Mind's Best WorkOver the years, tales about the creative process have flourished-tales of sudden insight and superior intelligence and personal eccentricity. Coleridge claimed that he wrote "Kubla Khan" in one sitting after an opium-induced dream. Poe declared that his "Raven" was worked out "with the precision and rigid consequence of a mathematical problem." |
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... artistic , etc. ) BF408.P387 153.3'5 81-4223 ISBN 0-674-57627-6 ( cloth ) 2. Creative ability . AACR2 ISBN 0-674-57624-1 ( paper ) I. Title . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A finished book is a way for a writer To The Generations : o The.
... artistic , etc. ) BF408.P387 153.3'5 81-4223 ISBN 0-674-57627-6 ( cloth ) 2. Creative ability . AACR2 ISBN 0-674-57624-1 ( paper ) I. Title . ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A finished book is a way for a writer To The Generations : o The.
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... artists , and other individuals who participated as subjects in my studies . They gracefully submitted to the strictures and intru- sions of research . Much of what is said in these chapters could not have been said but for their ...
... artists , and other individuals who participated as subjects in my studies . They gracefully submitted to the strictures and intru- sions of research . Much of what is said in these chapters could not have been said but for their ...
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... artist's insights ; and Israel Scheffler for his sound and humane logic applied to scholarly problems and his speaking out on numerous occasions in support of our work . The research for this volume was done at Project Zero , a basic ...
... artist's insights ; and Israel Scheffler for his sound and humane logic applied to scholarly problems and his speaking out on numerous occasions in support of our work . The research for this volume was done at Project Zero , a basic ...
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... artistic accomplishments can be understood as products of the kind of searching we do when we systematically pick lint off a sweater . In short , too often we have missed the connections between the marvelous and the mun- dane . For ...
... artistic accomplishments can be understood as products of the kind of searching we do when we systematically pick lint off a sweater . In short , too often we have missed the connections between the marvelous and the mun- dane . For ...
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... artists , scientists , or businesspeople are about creativity , a personal trait . " Great- ing , " on the other hand , is a name for a process . It asks how the creative person thinks , not what the creative person is . Moreover , this ...
... artists , scientists , or businesspeople are about creativity , a personal trait . " Great- ing , " on the other hand , is a name for a process . It asks how the creative person thinks , not what the creative person is . Moreover , this ...
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