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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 shallowness of our inner experience, the hollowness of our worship, and that servile imitation of the world which marks our promotional…
— Aiden Wilson Tozer
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Trivial participation ultimately bores you, leaves behind a sense of shallowness, contributes little to your deeper sense of life. Significant participation, on…
— Henryk Skolimowski
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Your shallowness or greatness of the soul shows up in your aura.
— Harbhajan Singh
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Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.
— Isaac Barrow
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It was not the violence of our enemies [in World War I] that would undo us, I thought, but our own spiritual…
— Learned Hand
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The '80s to me, more than anything else, represents a time of real criminal activity in the office of the president: an…
— Martha Plimpton
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"Very" is the most useless word in the English language and can always come out. More than useless, it is treacherous because…
— Florence King
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The amateur has a long list of fears. Near the top are two: Solitude and silence. The amateur fears solitude and silence…
— Steven Pressfield
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Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow.
— Oscar Wilde
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The supreme vice is shallowness.
— Oscar Wilde
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We’re in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of…
— Robert M. Pirsig
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Fine," Connor tells him. "Think about stuff until your head explodes. But the only thing I want to think about is surviving…
— Neal Shusterman
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