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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”
― Confucius

“Defeat is a state of mind; no one is ever defeated until defeat has been accepted as a reality.”
― Bruce Lee

“There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you.”
― Bruce Lee

“...if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”
― Bruce Lee

“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
― Martin Luther King Jr.

“The idea is that flowing water never goes stale, so just keep on flowing.”
― Bruce Lee

“I was born very, very lazy and I don't always practice very long. but I must say, in my defense, that it is not so good, in a musical way, to overpractice. When you do, the music seems to come out of your pocket. If you play with a feeling of 'Oh, I know this,' you play without that little drop of fresh blood that is necessary – and the audience feels it.”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“At every concert I leave a lot to the moment. I must have the unexpected, the unforeseen. I want to risk, to dare. I want to be surprised by what comes out. I want to enjoy it more than the audience. That way the music can bloom anew. It's like making love. The act is always the same, but each time it's different.”
― Arthur Rubinstein

“Opportunity is often missed because it comes dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward.”
― Thomas A. Edison

“A good intention, with a bad approach, often leads to a poor result.”
― Thomas Edison

“Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.”
― Louis Pasteur

“If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing we call "failure" is not the falling down, but the staying down.”
― Mary Pickford

“Never to suffer would never to have been blessed.”
― Edgar Allan Poe