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Don't cheat the world of your contribution. Give it what you've got.
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The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of…
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The professional does not permit himself to become hidebound within one incarnation, however comfortable or successful. Like a transmigrating soul, he shucks…
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The Spartans say that any army may win while it still has legs under it; the real test comes when all strength…
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On the field of The Self stand a knight and a dragon. You are the knight. Resistance is the dragon.
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The more scared we are of a work or calling, the more sure we can be that we have to do it.
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The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel…
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If you were meant to cure cancer or write a symphony or crack cold fusion and you don't do it, you not…
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Playing the game for money produces the proper professional attitude. It inculcates the lunch-pail state of mind that shows up for work…
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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…
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The artist committing himself to his calling has volunteered for hell, whether he knows it or not. He will be dining for…
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The only intercourse possible between the knight and the dragon is battle.
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The hero and the coward both feel the same thing, but the hero uses his fear, projects it onto his opponent, while…
— Cus D'Amato
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He who fears he will suffer, already suffers from his fear.
— Michel de Montaigne
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Who shrinks from knowledge of his calamities but aggravates his fear; troubles half seen, shall torture all the more.
— Seneca the Younger
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Christian, let God's distinguishing love to you be a motive to you to fear Him greatly. He has put His fear in…
— John Bunyan
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An honest private man often grows cruel and abandoned when converted into an absolute prince. Give a man power of doing what…
— Joseph Addison
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There is nothing ugly about death; but man, out of his fear, has made even the word, death ugly and unutterable. People…
— Rajneesh
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At man's core there is a voice that wants him never to give in to fear. But if it is true that…
— Georges Bataille
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Cus was my father but he was more than a father. You can have a father and what does it mean?—it doesn't…
— Mike Tyson
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The hero and the coward both feel exactly the same fear, only the hero confronts his fear and converts it into fire.
— Cus D'Amato
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What one side considers a defense the other considers a threat. In the vortex of the struggle, each is trapped by his…
— C. Wright Mills
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If in this supreme test, in face of which the braggart falls silent and every heroic gesture is paralyzed, a man walks…
— Josef Pieper
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Men are terrified of a woman's depth of love and the energy that moves as a woman's sexuality and emotions. And, at…
— David Deida
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