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"If a craftsman wants to do good work, he must first sharpen his tools."
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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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"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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"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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"If you want to be a calligrapher, write, and write, and write."
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"It is the goldsmith who can assay the gold."
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"You only need enough experience to master the art."
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"Study the past if you would define the future."
Education
"The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue."
Virtue
"He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it."
Government
"It is when those who are not strong enough have made some moderate amount of progress that they fail and give up..."
Life
"Virtuous people often revenge themselves for the constraints to which they submit by the boredom which they inspire."
People
"When you know a thing, to hold that you know it, and when you do not know a thing, to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge."
Knowledge
"When we see persons of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see persons of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves."
Character
"Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated."
Life
"To rank the effort above the prize may be called love."
Love
"Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?"
Man
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