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Stan Lee, known to those who knew him well as a grand self-mythologizer, had an ability to impress strangers. He himself had superpowers, like great storytelling abilities, or the way he coaxed talent from others. Many compared him to an orchestra conductor, who acts as a human catalyst.

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Artists are a group that insists on being amazed. They cannot forget how surprising, beautiful and worthy of examination everything is.

Albert Dürer, at the age of thirty-five years, looked at hands as though he had never seen any before, appreciating how fingers interlace, how foldabl...

• Action:  “It had long since come to my attention that people of accomplishment rarely sat back and let things happen to them. They went out and happened to things.”
• Experiment: “Experience does not ever err. It is only your judgment that errs in promising itse...