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"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
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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."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
"I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way."
"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
"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."
"The writer identifies the thought behind every written word."
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
"There's no skill. You can be a rock and move into another cash bracket."
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"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."
"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."
"Hazrat Ali, in a saying attributed to him, says: 'Man is in disguise, covered by his tongue'."
"Superior experience and knowledge will be made available to a man or woman in exact accordance with his worth, capacity and earning of it."
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