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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 wise person often shuns society for fear of being bored.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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When a Christian shuns fellowship with other Christians, the devil smiles, When he stops studying the Bible, the devil laughs. When he…
— Corrie Ten Boom
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How delicate her feet who shuns the ground, Stepping a-tiptoe on the heads of men.
— Homer
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Despite popular opinion, there are no important parallels between Madonna and Monroe, who was a virtuoso comedienne but who was in secure,…
— Camille Paglia
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The intelligent person is not one who merely knows what is good and what is bad. The intelligent person is one who,…
— Abu Nu`aym
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Weapons are ominous tools. They are abhorred by all creatures. Anyone who follows the Way shuns them.
— Laozi
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The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field.
— Edmund Waller
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The difference between faith and superstition is that the first uses reason to go as far as it can, and then makes…
— Sydney J. Harris
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Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.
— Samuel Johnson
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Women are the most charitable creatures, and the most troublesome. He who shuns women passes up the trouble, but also the benefits.…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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He is not worthy of the honey-comb, that shuns the hives because the bees have stings.
— William Shakespeare
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Opportunity can benefit no man who has not fitted himself to seize it and use it. Opportunity woos the worthy, shuns the…
— B. C. Forbes
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