"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."

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

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"To get the right word in the right place is a rare achievement. To condense the diffused light of a page of thought into the luminous flash of a single sentence, is worthy to rank as a prize composition just by itself...Anybody can have ideas--the difficulty is to express them without squandering a quire of paper on an idea that ought to be reduced to one glittering paragraph."

Mark Twain, American Author

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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."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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

Hakeem Olajuwon, Nigerian Athlete

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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 does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

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"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."

Susan C. Young, American Author

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"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."

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"You only need enough experience to master the art."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."

Annie Dillard, American Author

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"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."

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"He discards a quilt for fear of bugs."

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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."

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

"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 does not know what has been giving to him from above, shall never know how to use what he has been giving effectively and efficiently."

"Your expertise elevates your impressions to an entirely new realm. When you have paid the price, earned the right, and done the homework to be called an expert, people will be impressed."

"Great cooking is all about the three 'p's: patience, presence, and practice."

"You only need enough experience to master the art."

"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."

"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."

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"A loan is the scissors of friendship.A man's own tongue may cut his throat.The cage has no value without the bird."

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