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"It's like all my life I've been this tower standing at the edge of the ocean for some obscure purpose, and only now, almost eighteen years in, has someone thought to flip the switch that reveals that I'm not a tower at all. I'm a lighthouse. It's like waking up. I am incandescent."
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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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Personal Development
"Polish you potentials so as to shine your credentials."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"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."
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Personal Development
"When you appeal to force there's one thing you must never do - lose."
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Personal Development
"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."
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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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"He'd sooner die trying to hold the world on his shoulders than running away. Better always to run toward. And so he did."
Bravery
"It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented."
Hate
"I feel liquefied, like a cucumber forgotten in the crisper drawer, and I want to hold myself at arm's length and carry me to the trash. Who is this sack of slush masquerading as me? It's intolerable."
Self
"Life is you master, or death is."
Philosophy
"What's the point of being old if you can't beleaguer the young with your vast stores of wisdom?And what's the point of being young if you can't ignore all advice?"
Humor
"I write because, as wonderful as life is - and it is truly wonderful - it isn't enough. It does not, for example, contain dragons. I find this unsatisfactory. So I read. And I write."
Writing
"She had inherited a story that was strewn with corpses and clotted with enmity, and was only trying to stay alive in it."
Survival
"Perhaps Fate laid out your life for you like a dress on a bed, and you could either wear it or go naked."
Philosophy
"He read while he walked. He read while he ate. The other librarians suspected he somehow read while he slept, or perhaps didn't sleep at all."
Knowledge
"His shadow splayed out huge before him, and his mind gleamed with ancient wars and winged beings, a mountain of melted demon bones and the city on the far side of it--a city that had vanished in the mists of time."
Fantasy
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