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I grow plants for many reasons: to please my eye or to please my soul, to challenge the elements or to challenge my patience, for novelty or for nostalgia, but mostly for the joy in seeing them grow. ↗

— David Hobson

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The problem is never how to get new, innovative thoughts into your mind, but how to get old ones out. ↗

— Dee Hock

#how #innovative #into #mind #never

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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I never see a novel as a film while I'm writing it. Mostly because novels and films are so different, and I'm such an internal novelist. ↗

— Alice Hoffman

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Madison Square Garden, November 1984. I don't recall taking too much fear into the ring. I knew I could fight. But I got a big shock. They put me in with this rough, tough veteran called Lionel Byarm. He tested me to the limit. But I fought my heart out and, in the end, I prevailed. The story of my life, in my very first fight. ↗

— Evander Holyfield

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In its most limited sense, modern, art would seem to concern itself only with the technical innovations of the period. ↗

— Edward Hopper

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If you look at the history of the American capital market, there's probably no innovation more important than the idea of generally accepted accountancy principles. ↗

— Lawrence Summers

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On that other novels followed: but I still wrote fairy tales and dreamy poems of another world. ↗

— Laurence Housman

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Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel. ↗

— Robert Hughes

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Arizona now has one of the most innovative systems of financing school construction in the nation. ↗

— Jane D. Hull

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