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"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."
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"True dexterity is not just in books; It is giving from above, we learn it, it is nurtured, it is applied and it is developed. He who do not know what has been giving to him from above shall never know how to use what he has been giving efficiently and effectively."
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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
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"A good marksman may miss."
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"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
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"The key is in the craft."
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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"The test of our knowledge is not what we know, but what we can do."
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"Utilize your special skills to begin your own work."
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"Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education."
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"Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand."
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"Every book has an intrinsic impossibility, which its writer discovers as soon as his first excitement dwindles."
Writing


"The writer studies literature, not the world. He is careful of what he reads, for that is what he will write."
Literature


"Aim for the chopping block. If you aim for the wood, you will have nothing. Aim past the wood, aim through the wood; aim for the chopping block."
Nothing


"I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs."
Adventure


"I would like to learn, or remember, how to live."
Learning


"Somewhere and I can't find where I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest 'If I did not know about God and sin would I go to hell?' 'No' said the priest 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why ' asked the Eskimo earnestly 'did you tell me?'"
Philosophy


"I woke in bits, like all children, piecemeal over the years. I discovered myself and the world, and forgot them, and discovered them again."
Family


"Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world."
Imagination


"I read about an Eskimo hunter who asked the local missionary priest, 'If I did not know about God and sin, would I go to hell?' 'No,' said the priest, 'not if you did not know.' 'Then why,' asked the Eskimo earnestly, 'did you tell me?"
Ethics


"On plenty of days the writer can write three or four pages, and on plenty of other days he concludes he must throw them away."
Art
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