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"He is the best sailor who can steer within fewest points of the wind and exact a motive power out of the greatest obstacles."
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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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"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
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"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
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"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."
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"Seth joined the group of very stern-looking men, and they immediately started talking, their voices too low for me to hear, but it didn't stop me from trying. I learned fairly quickly that I sucked at reading lips. Everything looked like they were saying "tomatoes or "I love you and I doubted that was what was being said."
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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."
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"Any fool can do something cool and look cool, but it takes skill to make something uncool cool again."
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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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"My background playing soccer gave me a natural advantage over many of the American-born players."
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"Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake."
Dream
"The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles."
Communication
"I believe that the mind can be permanently profaned by the habit of attending to trivial things."
Focus
"Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all."
Education
"Live the life you've dreamed."
Inspirational
"It's not enough to be busy, so are the ants. The question is: what are we busy about?"
Time
"Speech is for the convenience of those who are hard of hearing, but there are many fine things which we cannot say if we have to shout."
Psychology
"Those who have been bred in the school of politics fail now and always to face the facts."
Politics
"Be true to your work, your word, and your friend."
Friendship
"I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude."
Solitude
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