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"Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through the air in search of prey and the patience of a donkey hauling water, playing always by the rules of the game."
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"It takes no more actual sagacity to carry on the everyday hawking and haggling of the world or to ladle out its normal doses of bad medicine and worse law than it takes to operate a taxi cab or fry a pan of fish."
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Personal Development
"To cut and tighten sentences is the secret of mastery."
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Personal Development
"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."
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Personal Development
"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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Personal Development
"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."
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Personal Development
"Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections."
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Personal Development
"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."
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"I think paranoia can be instructive in the right doses. Paranoia is a skill."
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Personal Development
"You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues."
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"More grass means less forest; more forest less grass. But either-or is a construction more deeply woven into our culture than into nature, where even antagonists depend on one another and the liveliest places are the edges, the in-betweens or both-ands..... Relations are what matter most."
Environment
"People in Slow Food understand that food is an environmental issue."
Environment
"My writing is remarkably non-confessional; you actually learn very little about me."
Writing
"Yes, I very much like to have a personal stake in what I'm writing about."
Writing
"We know there is a deep reservoir of food wisdom out there, or else humans would not have survived to the extent we have. Much of this food wisdom is worth preserving and reviving and heeding."
Knowledge
"So this is what commodity corn can do to a cow: industrialize the miracle of nature that is a ruminant, taking this sunlight- and prairie grass-powered organism and turning it into the last thing we need: another fossil fuel machine. This one, however, is able to suffer."
Environment
"There's been progress toward seeing that nature and culture are not opposing terms, and that wilderness is not the only kind of landscape for environmentalists to concern themselves with."
Nature
"A lawn is nature under totalitarian rule."
Nature
"Every major food company now has an organic division. There's more capital going into organic agriculture than ever before."
Food
"I think perfect objectivity is an unrealistic goal; fairness, however, is not."
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