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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
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"Spill not the morning (the quintessence of the day!) in recreations for sleep is a recreation. Add not therefore sauce to sauce. ... Pastime like wine is poison in the morning. It is then good husbandry to sow the head which hath lain fallow all night with some serious work."
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"You must stop been so carnal and learn to say no to people, if it concerns the things of God."
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"Turn the actions in achieving your goals into systematically repeated things and make them your routine."
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"Working hard denies oneself from instant gratification."
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"Every unit of time that passes daily should be accounted for."
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"Success is in direct proportion to the level of consistency in the application of the daily disciplines and actions required."
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"Discipline is when we postpone the pleasure of today for the benefit of tomorrow."
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"Only through delayed gratification could you be able to come up with other virtues, character, trait that will really qualify you to call yourself a human being."
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"Furnishing was not a priority in the Citadel. Shelves, stools, tables... There was a rumor among the novices that priests towards the top of the hierarchy had golden furniture, but there was no sign of it here. The room was as severe as anything in the novices' quarters although it had, perhaps, a more opulent severity; it wasn't the forced bareness of poverty, but the starkness of intent."
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"I still get up every morning at 4 A.M. I write seven days a week, including Christmas. And I still face a blank page every morning, and my characters don't really care how many books I've sold."
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"Close to the Edge, Red, One of a kind, Discipline, Earthworks, The Sound of Surprise, all seem to me to be albums that captured the essence of the intention."
Discipline
"We used to drink an awful lot of alcohol."
Alcohol
"We all lived in the same house, or most of us did. And as far as I can make out we were confined to the property, because at twenty-four hours' notice we'd have to do a gig somewhere. So you couldn't leave the building for more than twelve hours in case a gig came through."
Building
"I mean, Chris is, I'm sure, a wonderful guy. But in those days he also very, very late. For all appointments and departures and arrivals and sound checks and anything."
Sound
"My harmony is passable but is usually made more eloquent at the hands of Steve Hamilton."
Harmony
"And I like messing around in the engine room of music. Seeing what happens in the rhythm section area."
Music
"I saw it as a challenge to play with Pat and we put hours and hours into it, usually on the bus. The trick was to find something that we both wanted to play within our different styles which would add up to being greater than the sum of its parts."
Being
"I practice at home, in between phone calls, and have much to do."
Home
"And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser."
People
"I do remember the whole thing as being very argumentative, hot blooded... a permanent state of friction between Jon and Chris, Chris and me, me and Jon."
Being
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