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"If you are still breathing, don not stop learning."
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Personal Development
"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
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Personal Development
"It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese."
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Personal Development
"Understand the concept of time and find ways to maximize it effectively."
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Personal Development
"Let's stop discussing about who a wise person is and start learning to become wise persons. Begin acquiring knowledge at the very moment you discover that there is something called "knowledge"!"
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Personal Development
"You will learn more when you teach someone else. The secret to obtaining more knowledge is teaching more people as possible and available!"
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Personal Development
"Learn new things. Do progressive research into what you do and find out how others outside your quarters are doing it. Dare to be excellent. Average brands easily go into extinction soonest."
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Personal Development
"I am afraid that our eyes are bigger than our stomachs, and that we have more curiosity than understanding. We grasp at everything, but catch nothing except wind."
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Personal Development
"Illiteracy and stupidity are not quite different statuses, they are both the outcome of our lethargy and indolence."
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Personal Development
"You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store."
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"Quantity produces quality. If you only write a few things, you're doomed."
Creativity
"Fiction gives us empathy: It puts us inside the minds of other people, gives us the gift of seeing through their eyes. Fiction is a lie that tells us true things, over and over."
Fiction
"Remember: Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations. Plot is observed after the fact rather than before. It cannot precede action. It is the chart that remains when an actionis through. That is all Plot ever should be. It is human desire letrun, running, and reaching a goal. It cannot be mechanical. It canonly be dynamic. So, stand aside, forget targets, let the characters, your fingers, body, blood, and heart do."
Writing
"Silly words, silly words, silly awful hurting words."
Communication
"All he really knew was that if he stayed here he would soon be the property of things that buzzed and snorted and hissed, that gave off fumes or stenches. In six months, he would be the owner of a large pink, trained ulcer, a blood pressure of algebraic dimensions, a myopia this side of blindness, and nightmares as deep as oceans and infested with improbable lengths of dream intestines through which he must violently force his way each night."
Survival
"In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize."
Change
"Summer quiet thoughts on summer quiet noons."
Nature
"How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?"
Emotion
"The beginning of wisdom, as they say. When you're seventeen you know everything. When you're twenty-seven if you still know everything you're still seventeen."
Wisdom
"School is shortened, discipline relaxed, philosophies, histories, languages dropped, English and spelling gradually neglected, finally almost completely ignored. Life is immediate, the job counts, pleasure lies all about after work. Why learn anything save pressing buttons, pulling switches, fitting nuts and bolts?"
Society
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