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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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If only we could live two lives: the first in which to make one's mistakes, and the second in which to profit…
— D. H. Lawrence
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Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.
— Charles Bukowski
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Death is not the end, but the beginning of a new life. Yes, it is an end of something that is already…
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes there is…
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The most important day I remember in all my life is the one on which my teacher, Anne Mansfield Sullivan, came to…
— Helen Keller
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Sometimes the Warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once.
— Paulo Coelho
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Sometimes the warrior feels as if he were living two lives at once. 'There is a bridge that links what I do…
— Paulo Coelho
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We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
— Mary Chapin Carpenter
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I am just beginning to understand what it is to paint. A painter should have two lives, one in which to learn,…
— Pierre Bonnard
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Science demands from a man all his life. If you had two lives that would not be enough for you. Be passionate…
— Ivan Pavlov
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At the violet hour, when the eyes and back Turn upward from the desk, when the human engine waits Like a taxi…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Listening is a very active awareness of the coming together of at least two lives. Listening, as far as I'm concerned, is…
— Fred Rogers
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