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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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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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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"Every man has a specific skill, whether it is discovered or not, that more readily and naturally comes to him than it would to another, and his own should be sought and polished. He excels best in his niche - originality loses its authenticity in one's efforts to obtain originality."
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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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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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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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"The key is in the craft."
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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 effectively and efficiently."
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"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
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"The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured."
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Friendship
"Not to be greedy is, paradoxically, the highest form of looking after one's true interests."
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"When the Higher Man does something worthy of admiration, it is an evidence of his Mastership, not the object of it."
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"Opinion is usually something which people have when they lack comprehensive information."
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"If you assume that it is there, you will generally not be far off the truth."
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"The most important thing about the quest for knowledge is that it should never end."
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"Trust is needed before lessons can be learnt."
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"You cannot change reality by ignoring it."
Reality
"Q: What is a fundamental mistake of man's?A: To think that he is alive, when he has merely fallen asleep in life's waiting-room."
Reality
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