"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."

Skill, Creativity, Work, Mastery

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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."

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"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."

John Shirley, American Author

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"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."

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"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

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"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."

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"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."

Steve Wozniak, American Businessman

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"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

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"You can only write well, what you have experienced."

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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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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

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"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

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"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

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"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

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"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

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"Everything depends on the right perspective."

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"Not many abilities are inherent. Most are acquired through patient practice, and those that are inherent are enhanced and utilized through practice too."

"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."

"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."

"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."

"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."

"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."

"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."

"Substitute 'damn' every time you're inclined to write 'very, ' your editor will delete it and the writing will be just as it should be."

"You can only write well, what you have experienced."

"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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"The bowl is warmer than the soup."

"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."

"The means through which people may perceive Truth have forms, Truth has no form."

"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."

"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."

"Things which are seemingly opposed may in fact be working together."

"The most difficult things to grasp are the simplest."

"The self is the only thing you can ever truly know."

"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."

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