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"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
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"I have had an aversion to good spelling for sixty years and more, merely for the reason that when I was a boy there was not a thing I could do creditably except spell according to the book. It was a poor and mean distinction, and I early learned to disenjoy it. I suppose that this is because the ability to spell correctly is a talent, not an acquirement. There is some dignity about an acquirement, because it is a product of your own labor. It is earned, whereas to be able to do a thing merely by the grace of God, and not by your own effort, transfers the thing to our heavenly home--where possibly it is a matter of pride and satisfaction, but it leaves you naked and bankrupt."
"I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that."
"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
"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."
"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."
"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
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"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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