“Maya Angelou observed you cant use up creativity. The more you use, the more you have. Sadly, too often creativity is smothered rather than nurtured. There has to be climate in which new ways of thinking, perceiving, questioning are encouraged.”

Source: How Successful People Think: Change Your Thinking, Change Your Life

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American author, speaker and pastor 1947

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