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    Charles Addams
    “Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
    ― Charles Addams
    tags: humor, life, morticia-addams
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    Mark Twain
    “The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: death, life
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    Criss Jami
    “Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: ambition, business, calling, career, commitment, determination, dreams, entrepreneur, faith, genius, hobbies, insanity, living, passion, patience, peace, perfection, perfectionist, perseverance, persistence, power, priorities, risk, sanity, strategy, strength, success
    560 likes

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  • #4
    Robert Greene
    “LAW 4
    Always Say Less Than Necessary

    When you are trying to impress people with words, the more you say, the more common you appear, and the less in control. Even if you are saying something banal, it will seem original if you make it vague, open-ended, and sphinxlike. Powerful people impress and intimidate by saying less. The more you say, the more likely you are to say something foolish.”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
    tags: inspirational, motivational
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    Robert Greene
    “A man said to a Dervish: “Why do I not see you more often?” The Dervish replied, “Because the words ‘Why have you not been to see me?’ are sweeter to my ear than the words ‘Why have you come again?”
    ― Robert Greene, The 48 Laws of Power
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  • #6
    Robert Greene
    “The future belongs to those who learn more skills and combine them in creative ways.”
    ― Robert Greene, Mastery
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  • #7
    Robert Greene
    “The time that leads to mastery is dependent on the intensity of our focus.”
    ― Robert Greene, Mastery
    tags: dependent, focus, intensity, time
    208 likes

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  • #8
    Robert Greene
    “Just as a well-filled day brings blessed sleep, so a well-employed life brings a blessed death.”
    ― Robert Greene, Mastery
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    Robert Greene
    “In the end, the money and success that truly last come not to those who focus on such things as goals, but rather to those who focus on mastery and fulfilling their Life’s Task.”
    ― Robert Greene, Mastery
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  • #10
    Mike Tyson
    “Man is not mean to be humble, he's meant to be humbled.”
    ― Mike Tyson, Undisputed Truth
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  • #11
    Mike Tyson
    “Everybody thinks this is a tough man’s sport. This is not a tough man’s sport. This is a thinking man’s sport. A tough man is gonna get hurt real bad in this sport.”
    ― Mike Tyson
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  • #12
    Arthur Rimbaud
    “Genius is the recovery of childhood at will.”
    ― Arthur Rimbaud
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  • #13
    Aristotle
    “No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.”
    ― Aristotle
    tags: aristotle, genius, great-minds, madness
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  • #14
    Ernest Hemingway
    “When writing a novel a writer should create living people; people not characters. A character is a caricature.”
    ― Ernest Hemingway, Death in the Afternoon
    tags: caricature, characters, skill, true-to-life, writing
    449 likes

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  • #15
    Stephen R. Covey
    “Habit is the intersection of knowledge (what to do), skill (how to do), and desire (want to do).”
    ― Stephen R. Covey, The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
    tags: desire, habit, knowledge, skill
    188 likes

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  • #16
    Criss Jami
    “The height of cleverness is in one's ability to be very clever without seeming clever at all.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: ability, appearance, being, clever, cleverness, height, humility, intelligence, pretentious, profound, skill, wit
    7 likes

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  • #17
    Criss Jami
    “Fresh, solid ideas feel like gifts to writers, therefore every morning is Christmas.”
    ― Criss Jami, Killosophy
    tags: art, christmas, creativity, expression, fun, gift, holiday, joy, philosophy, skill, talent, writer, writing
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  • #18
    “Tact is the ability to formulate your thoughts, carefully choose your words and effectively communicate them without offending anyone. This is the most difficult skill to achieve, the best skill anyone can possess, and the most important skill in our daily lives.”
    ― Uzoma Nnadi
    tags: communicate, daily-lives, skill, tact
    13 likes

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  • #19
    Eliel Pierre
    “Talent is what God gives us, Skill is what we give back to Him”
    ― Eliel Pierre
    tags: hard-work, skill, talent
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  • #20
    “The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.”
    ― Daphne Delacroix
    tags: inspirational, perfection, skill, wisdom
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  • #21
    Rick Warren
    “Repetition is the mother of character and skill.”
    ― Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
    tags: character, inspirational, life, skill
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  • #22
    Maurice Young
    “To become a master at any skill, it takes the total effort of your: heart, mind, and soul working together in tandem.”
    ― Maurice Young
    tags: dedication, inspiration, inspirational, mastery, mastery-of-skills, motivational, personal-development, success
    61 likes

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  • #23
    Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    “Though you can love what you do not master, you cannot master what you do not love.”
    ― Mokokoma Mokhonoana
    tags: dedication, hard-work, love, mastery, talent
    133 likes

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  • #24
    “You must immerse yourself in your work. You have to fall in love with your work … You must dedicate your life to mastering your skill. That’s the secret of success.”
    ― Chef Jiro
    tags: mastery, mastery-of-skills, success
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  • #25
    Robbie Vorhaus
    “The first step to happiness and personal mastery is to start now.”
    ― Robbie Vorhaus, One Less. One More.
    tags: happiness, mastery, now, present-moment
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  • #26
    “When u practice something with conscious mind n then continue practicing the same even with sub-conscious mind, You Master it..”
    ― honeya
    tags: brain-training, master, mastery, perfection, perfectionist, practice, quality, sales, train, train-your-brain, training, training-management
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  • #27
    “You become a master in what you repeatedly do in consistency. Mastery is not born; it is acquired. It is not blood-linked; it is skill-learnt!”
    ― Israelmore Ayivor, Dream big!: See your bigger picture!
    tags: acquire, blood, blood-linked, born, born-to-win, consistent, consistently, food-for-thought, israelmore-ayivor, learning, master, mastery, practice, practice-makes-perfect, practise, repeat, repeatedly, skills
    3 likes

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  • #28
    Leo Tolstoy
    “Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority share in it.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, A Confession
    tags: conscience, majority, right-and-wrong, truth, wrong
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  • #29
    Malcolm X
    “Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”
    ― Malcolm X, The Autobiography of Malcolm X
    tags: convictions, intelligence, knowledge, open-mindedness, truth
    127 likes



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