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This book will shape how you think about life. 

 

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This book will inspire you to interrogate your own creative process and to appreciate the beauty that is creation.

 

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This book will inspire you to think about thinking. :)

 

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This book will shape how you think about what it takes to seek and attain power and influence. 

 

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Who is your team of challengers? This book will shape how you think about each choice you make in a changing world.

 

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Open up any page and start reading. A leadership masterpiece. My graduate school professor,  Dean Galvin, tipped me off to its brilliance.

 

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This book will shape how you think about beauty and the quest for truth (via questions). 

 

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How do works of art come to be? An exploration of the process through the lens of creators (and illustrated.)

 

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"Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the ...consequences of love’s absence."

 

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Theology: An exploration of creativity through the lens of an exploration of the idea of a Creator. 

 

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"Focus your arguments on the moral values we share---compassion and fairness--rather than those held by only one part of the population."

 

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"Look up at the sky. Ask yourself, “Has the sheep eaten the flower or not?” And you'll see how everything changes."

 

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"The gift moves toward an empty place." 

 

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"What if imagination and art are not, as many of us might think, the frosting on life but the fountainhead of human experience? "

 

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"Explores the way art gets made."

 

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On the philosophic life.

 

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"What will happen to a joke when the language is gone? "

 

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"Where do ideas come from? Iyengar has an idea about this. A practical method for innovating.

 

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