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The professional respects his craft. He does not consider himself superior to it. He recognizes the contributions of those who have gone before him. He…

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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks…
The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…
If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…
Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work…
F@*# self-doubt. I despise it. I hold it in contempt, along with the hell-spawned ooze-pit of Resistance from which it crawled. I…
The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…
The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.

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