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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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While no man in his right mind would advocate sending our ground forces into continental China, and such was never given a…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Freedom is whatever the president says it is, pending revision.
— James Bovard
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The influence of modern physics goes beyond technology. It extends to the realm of thought and culture where it has led to…
— Fritjof Capra
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Science is uncertain. Theories are subject to revision; observations are open to a variety of interpretations, and scientists quarrel amongst themselves. This…
— Isaac Asimov
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We would labor earnestly to raise a believer in salvation by free will into a believer in salvation by grace, for we…
— Charles Spurgeon
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Today the strategies of many companies in the real estate industry are premised on low interest rates, an assumption that has resulted…
— Akira Mori
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I am inspired by the professionalism of others. I believe there is an obligation to strive for excellence in what one is…
— Densey Clyne
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Revision, once well done, becomes a sort of automatic itch which you scratch in the next work without thinking about it.
— Romulus Linney
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The common workshop goal is revision, not suicide.
— Hilma Wolitzer
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There are days when the result is so bad that no fewer than five revisions are required. In contrast, when I'm greatly…
— John Kenneth Galbraith
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I am inclined to think that as I grow older I will come to be infatuated with the art of revision, and…
— Joyce Carol Oates
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The longer I write, the more important I believe it is to write the first draft as fast as possible. In drafting,…
— Donald Murray
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