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"Individuals, too, who cultivate a variety of skills seem brighter, more energetic and more adaptable than those who know how to do one thing only."
"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
"You can only write well, what you have experienced."
"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."
"The infinitude of Jiu Jitsu allows for the infinitude of the types of practitioners. There exists a game for each and every one of us which is specifically possible within the confines of our particular skill set."
"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."
"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
"Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician."
"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
Explore more quotes by John Shirley
"Labels only confuse people. The smarter people recognize artists who transcend categories. But I always try to entertain. It's in my nature; writers are born to entertain. If that means working ostensibly within a genre, fine."
"I'm incapable of writing without social commentary. I like to think that it's integrated and not really heavy handedly didactic."
"Weekends are a bit like rainbows; they look good from a distance but disappear when you get up close to them."
"I get drunk writing words. I don't drink or do drugs, but I get so carried away with writing that I get inebriated from it."
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