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"You better have some skills in this world. You better bring something to the dinner party or you will be the dinner."
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"You can read in the space of a coffin, and you can write in the space of a toolshed meant for mowers and spades."
"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."
"If you dread ending up in the bunker, practice these tricky out-of-the-sand shots until you master them. Think of it as insurance-we all have learned that, once you know you can make that shot easily, you will seldom need to!"
"The skilled artisan uses the same iron to make a horseshoeAs he does for a polished mirror for the King."
"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."
"To be a better cook, cook more. To be a better writer, read more."
"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."
"A whetstone, though it cannot cut, may sharpen a knife that will."
"I learnt the theory of movement, which I still teach sometimes. I was very, very ambitious to learn a skill."
Explore more quotes by Bryant McGill
"Fear is the greatest enemy; the father of all suffering, and love is the only cure for humanity's great afflictions."
"In so many ways we are still in the dark ages, but there is light appearing over the horizon of choice and consciousness."
"Our minds of infinite possibilities have been plowed, seeded and cultivated by every word, institution and sacred belief we hold dear, to produce a foul harvest of exclusion, apathy, brute domination and death."
"In a stress pressure-cooker like America, I believe we will see more and more shooting massacres. Violence is in our cultural DNA."
"If you are unhappy with your life and the state of the world, the best place to start changing things is within yourself."
"It is essential that you follow your own idea of passion, even if to others it looks like suffering."
"Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do."
"Through forgiveness you can be free of the tragedies and pain in other people's failures."
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