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Generativity is a system's capacity to produce unanticipated change through unfiltered contributions from broad and varied audiences.
You can be creative and not addictive, or addictive and not creative. Most addicted people do not produce anything of remarkable note.
A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
New questions can produce new scientific leaps. They can tiddlywink new flips of insight and understanding. Big ones. Paradigm shifts.
If our Trade be taxed, why not our Lands, or Produce in short, everything we possess? They tax us without having legal representation.
With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.
I now believe that major labels can only work with people who care more about fame and money than the quality of the art they produce.
Customers want to buy something which is not expensive because of a label but which is costly because of the time taken to produce it.
I started off making music that made fun of pop; now I'm nominated for helping produce pop songs that aim to be as honest as possible.
I basically eat a lot of proteins, and I've been eating smaller portions of food. I try to eat all locally raised and organic produce.
Front end loading with appropriate resources provided time to reflect and produce needed changes and alignment around the C&Q approach.
... it takes a great deal to produce ennui in an Englishman and if you do, he only takes it as convincing proof that you are well-bred.
You can't hide behind race any more. You can't hide behind class structure any more. You can't hide behind family. You need to produce.
Past success is no guarantee of future success, so I have learned to be an entrepreneur. I began to produce and direct my own projects.
I don't like to produce albums. I hate producing albums, as a matter of fact, because I'm an obsessed mixer and I can't leave it alone.
For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.
One of my life principles is that if something isn't working, doing something harder isn't necessarily going to produce the same result.
I'm not an overly material person. Sure, I like certain comforts in life. But buying a lot of 'things' doesn't produce happiness for me.
The industrial revolution has tended to produce everywhere great urban masses that seem to be increasingly careless of ethical standards.
A board of directors that cannot produce reliable audited financial statements for almost seven years simply should not remain in office.
I've always wanted to produce. I've had my production company name for years, even though I didn't really do anything with it right away.
A mind at liberty to reflect on its own observations, if it produce nothing useful to the world, seldom fails of entertainment to itself.
A lot of people are happy to give money to charities but are wary of giving through taxes because they feel it doesn't produce any value.
Happiness is not something you acquire; love is not something you produce; love is not something you have; love is something that has you.
Any time one seeks to produce for a larger public one inevitably has to drop material that would only be understood by a particular group.
Education is a danger... At best an education which produces useful coolies for us is admissible. Every educated person is a future enemy.
In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
We judge economics by what it can produce. As such, economics is rather more like engineering than physics: more practical than spiritual.
Being essentially a creator, I never set out to shock, always thinking about creating my work and not about the benefits it could produce.
Ghettos and barrios and abusive homes and trauma wards may produce scarred souls; they can cripple more human spirits than they strengthen.
A mere copier of nature can never produce any thing great, can never raise and enlarge the conceptions, or warm the heart of the spectator.
Where absolute superiority is not attainable, you must produce a relative one at the decisive point by making skillful use ofwhat you have.
Civilization depends on our expanding ability to produce food efficiently, which has markedly accelerated thanks to science and technology.
If you're in any field, you should own a farm because one day you will be grateful that you are able to grow your own agricultural produce.
Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.
By furthering the use of ethanol, farmers are presented with the opportunity to produce a cash crop by collecting their agricultural wastes.
When a tree, a natural product, is felled, is society put into possession of no greater produce than that of the mere labour of the woodman?
In fashion, there's huge pressure to produce results in no time. But you cannot guarantee numbers, because fashion gravitates around desire.
It's so easy to produce food, throw it away, and watch people starve. It's so hard to produce food mindfully and to feed and to reduce waste.
It's impossible to write and produce a record when your parents are dying. I really tried, I really, really tried, but it just wouldn't come.
I continued writing the bad plays which fortunately nobody would produce, just as no one did me the unkindness of publishing my early novels.
The need to be a great artist makes it hard to be an artist. The need to produce a great work of art makes it hard to produce any art at all.
I prefer short stories, but publishers would, of course, rather that writers produce novels, since novels are still more commercially viable.
We've become increasingly addicted to consumption of goods that we don't produce ourselves, and a lot of the manufacturing has gone overseas.
Every musical movement that is big enough has to produce some good musicians who wouldn't have had the incentive to start playing without it.
The aim of the scholarly editor is not to produce the the easiest text for the reader, but to get as near as he can to the text of the author.
Dost thou know what life is, my child? Hast thou comprehended the action of those springs which produce existence? Hast thou examined thyself?
I would write my editorials using a manual typewriter in pitch-black darkness... I would produce the whole thing without having seen the text.
First of all, I'm not a singer or rapper. I'm an artiste. Besides singing, I produce music, dance, write poetry, and sometimes I paint as well.
The value we create is directly related to how much valuable information we can produce, how much trust we can earn, and how often we innovate.