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"The key is the ability, whether innate or conditioned, to find the other side of the rote, the picayune, the meaningless, the repetitive, the pointlessly complex. To be, in a word, unborable. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you cannot accomplish."
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"Don't invest everything in another man's calling."
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Personal Development
"Concentrate less on people and much on purpose. People can put your purpose in disarray, your purpose can put people in disarray."
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Personal Development
"When the mind is steady, it will not create any vibrations, and therefore one will get the result. Along with that, if there is purity of chit, then one will surely be able to get his work done."
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"Everything you need comes into focus when you abandon the unneeded."
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"Fix your gazes on the invisible."
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Personal Development
"Stay focused! Know where you are heading towards in life with your life! People going somewhere don't just go anywhere!"
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"You gotta make it a priority to make your priorities a priority."
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"Focus on the win and you lose the battle, focus on the battle and you win."
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Personal Development
"A busy life is not necessarily an effective life."
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"There are so many things and people craving your attention such that you could so easily forget that you have a purpose to fulfill within a specified time on the earth."
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"It can become an exercise in trying to get the reader to like and admire you instead of an exercise in creative art."
Art
"For these cultures, getting rid of the pain without addressing the deeper cause would be like shutting off a fire alarm while the fire's still going."
Cause
"One of the things that makes Wittgenstein a real artist to me is that he realized that no conclusion could be more horrible than solipsism."
Philosophy
"I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader."
Desire
"Pleasure becomes a value, a teleological end in itself. It's probably more Western than U.S. per se."
Society
"The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates."
Society
"The most dangerous thing about an academic education is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract thinking instead of simply paying attention to what's going on in front of me."
Awareness
"She was terrified of everything, and terrified to show it."
Emotion
"But someone sometime let you forget how to choose, and what. Someone let your peoples forget it was the only thing of importance, choosing. . . How to choose any but a child's greedy choices if there is no loving-filled father to guide, inform, teach the person how to choose? How is there freedom to choose if one does not learn how to choose?"
Wisdom
"What teachers and the administration in that era never seemed to see was that the mental work of what they called daydreaming often required more effort and concentration than it would have taken simply to listen in class. Laziness is not the issue. It is just not the work dictated by the administration."
Creativity
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