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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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Write. Rewrite. When not writing or rewriting, read. I know of no shortcuts.
— Larry L. King
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What is easy to read has been difficult to write. The labour of writing and rewriting, correcting and recorrecting, is the due…
— G. M. Trevelyan
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Writing a first draft is like groping one's way into a dark room, or overhearing a faint conversation, or telling a joke…
— Ted Solotaroff
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Rewriting is like scrubbing the basement floor with a toothbrush.
— Peter Murphy
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There is no great writing, only great rewriting.
— Louis D. Brandeis
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Good writing is rewriting.
— Truman Capote
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Good writing is essentially rewriting.
— Roald Dahl
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Writing is rewriting. A writer must learn to deepen characters, trim writing, intensify scenes. To fall in love with the first draft…
— Richard North Patterson
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When I say writing, O believe me, it is rewriting that I have chiefly in mind.
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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I can't understand how anyone can write without rewriting everything over and over again.
— Leo Tolstoy
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Writing and rewriting are a constant search for what it is one is saying.
— John Updike
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My writing is a process of rewriting, of going back and changing and filling in. in the rewriting process you discover what's…
— Joan Didion
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