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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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History, despite its wrenching pain, cannot be unlived, but if faced with courage, need not be lived again.
— Maya Angelou
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Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.
— Natalie Babbitt
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It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
— Dan Millman
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I will not die an unlived life. I will not live in fear of falling or catching fire. I choose to inhabit…
— Dawna Markova
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I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk…
— Dawna Markova
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Destructiveness is the outcome of an unlived life.
— Erich Fromm
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Amazingly, we take for granted that instinct for survival, fear of death, must separate us from the happiness of pure and uninterpreted…
— Peter Matthiessen
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Nothing affects the life of a child so much as the unlived life of its parent
— Carl Jung
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Sometimes when we weep in the movies we weep for ourselves or for a life unlived. Or we even go to the…
— Edward Zwick
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The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents,…
— Laurens van der Post
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The unlived life is not worth examining.
— Old Tom Morris
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What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most…
— John Boorman
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