“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

— Frank Capra

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Sicilian-born American film director 1897–1991

Elliot Perlman (1964) Australian writer

Source: The Reasons I Won't Be Coming

““What is a ‘hunch’?”
“Eh? It’s a belief that something is so, or isn’t so, without evidence.”
“I’d call a hunch the result of automatic reasoning below the conscious level on data you did not know you possessed.””

Robert A. Heinlein book The Puppet Masters

Source: The Puppet Masters (1951), Chapter 28 (p. 149)

“I tell you there is no such thing as creative hate!”

Willa Cather book The Song of the Lark

Part I, Ch. 9
The Song of the Lark (1915)

“You could just tell when a person belonged somewhere. That is something you can't fake, no matter how hard you try”

Sarah Dessen book What Happened to Goodbye

Source: What Happened to Goodbye

“Perfection is the satin-lined casket of creativity and originality. If you are a perfectionist, at least stop telling everybody you're one and try to get over it yourself, alone in your home with the lights off”

Augusten Burroughs (1965) American writer

Source: This Is How: Proven Aid in Overcoming Shyness, Molestation, Fatness, Spinsterhood, Grief, Disease, Lushery, Decrepitude & More. For Young and Old Alike.

“To be creative you actually have to do something.”

Ken Robinson (1950) UK writer

Source: The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything

“I think musicians have a responsibility to try and do something that is good. It's so hard. It's very difficult to pull something out of the hat creatively. Although I say it’s their responsibility, it's really just people trying to do the best that they can.”

Kate Bush (1958) British recording artist; singer, songwriter, musician and record producer

As quoted in "Kate Bush Speaks" by Owen Myers in Fader (23 November 2016) https://www.thefader.com/2016/11/23/kate-bush-interview-before-the-dawn

“I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.”

Piers Anthony (1934) English-American writer in the science fiction and fantasy genres

“Sometimes statistics will conspire to draw attention to a problem. Maybe they are trying to tell us something.”

Brian G. Marsden (1937–2010) British astronomer

"1997 XF<sub>11</sub> – the true story" in The Journal of the British Astronomical Association Vol. 109, No.1 (February 1999) https://archive.is/20121220165604/www.britastro.org/jbaa/archive/marsden.htm. <br class="br">Context: It is probably a good idea to search, at some level, for asteroids that come to the Earth's general vicinity. But merely counting the asteroids found is not sufficient. It is desirable to follow up each discovery to examine whether it can or can not be a threat during the next century or so. Objects for which the threat cannot be eliminated should be singled out for special study, notably to the extent of searching for old images in photographic archives. 1997 XF11 was noteworthy for the apathy shown to it prior to the very widespead announcement in March. If proper attention had been given to it earlier, the circumstances that led to the announcement would never have occurred. Sometimes statistics will conspire to draw attention to a problem. Maybe they are trying to tell us something.

“It is most important in creative science not to give up. If you are an optimist you will be willing to "try" more than if you are a pessimist.”

Stanislaw Ulam (1909–1984) Polish-American mathematician

Source: Adventures of a Mathematician - Third Edition (1991), Chapter 3, Travels Abroad, p. 55

“A hunch is creativity trying to tell you something.”

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