"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."

Growth, Writing, Procrastination, Process, Discipline

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"If you start to revise before you've reached the end, you're likely to begin dawdling with the revisions and putting off the difficult task of writing."

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"Grow your talents and skills through a consistent practice and progressive learning. Learn to relearn and unlearn. Raise the bar for yourself always."

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"Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials."

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"Good could become the enemy of the best. That best is possession."

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"Infinite growth of material consumption in a finite world is an impossibility."

E. F. Schumacher, English Economist

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"Growth occurs when we discover how to remain authentically ourselves in the presence of potentially threatening things. Maturity is the possession of coping skills: we can take in our stride things that previously would have knocked us off course. We are less fragile, less easily shocked and hence more capable of engaging with situations as they really are."

Alain de Botton, English Writer

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"The reason we have not gone to newspapers is because its a slow growth industry and I think they are dying. I'm not sure there will be newspapers in 10 years. I read newspapers every day. I even read Murdoch's Wall Street Journal."

Sumner Redstone, American Businessman

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"When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose."

Dwight D. Eisenhower, American President

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"Be a learning machine. What made you money last year, won't necessarily make you money this and next year."

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"Similar to a how a flower grows incrementally, people also blossom in stages. As we age, we expand our knowledge of how the world works and how other people respond to our deeds. We also expand our language skills in order to communicate both our thoughts and feelings."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

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"As a child I never thought about what I wanted to be, but I thought a lot about what I wanted to do."

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"Fate is unalterable only in the sense that given a cause, a certain result must follow, but no cause is inevitable in itself, and man can shape his world if he does not resign himself to ignorance."

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"Love alone could waken love."

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"Wandering is never waste, dear boy, ' he said. 'While you wander you will find much to wonder about, and wonder is the first step to creation."

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"An intelligent, energetic, educated woman cannot be kept in four walls - even satin - lined, diamond - studded walls - without discovering sooner or later that they are still a prison"

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"Truth is always exciting. Speak it, then; life is dull without it."

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"It is not healthy when a nation lives within a nation as coloured Americans are living inside America. A nation cannot live confident of its tomorrow if its refugees are among its own citizens."

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"Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up."

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"Fear alone makes man weak. If you are afraid, your hands tremble, your feet falter, and your brain cannot tell hands and feet what to do."

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"And to him war was a thing like earth and sky and water and why it was no one knew but only that it was."

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"Like Confucius of old, I am so absorbed in the wonder of the earth and the life upon it, that I cannot think of heaven and the angels."

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