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    Samuel Johnson
    “I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
    tags: books, conversation, erudition, reading, writing
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    Samuel Johnson
    “What is written without effort is in general read without pleasure.”
    ― Samuel Johnson, Johnsonian Miscellanies - Vol II
    tags: effort, perseverance
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    Anthony Robbins
    “Success is doing what you want to do, when you want, where you want, with whom you want, as much as you want.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
    tags: anthony-robbins, success
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    Anthony Robbins
    “The path to success is to take massive, determined action.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
    tags: life, wisdom
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    Anthony Robbins
    “If you talk about it, it's a dream, if you envision it, it's possible, but if you schedule it, it's real.”
    ― Anthony Robbins, Get the Edge
    tags: dreams, inspirational
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    Anthony Robbins
    “There are no real successes without rejection. The more rejection you get, the better you are, the more you've learned, the closer you are to your outcome... If you can handle rejection, you'll learn to get everything you want.”
    ― Anthony Robbins
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    Laurence J. Peter
    “Before publishers' blurbs were invented, authors had to make their reputations by writing.”
    ― Laurence J. Peter
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    Randy Pausch
    “No matter how bad things are, you can always make things worse.”
    ― Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture
    tags: adversity, hard-times, inspiration
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    Daniel Tammet
    “You don't have to be disabled to be different, because everybody's different.”
    ― Daniel Tammet, Born on a Blue Day
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    Sam Keen
    “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
    ― Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved
    tags: learn, love, perfect, person
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    Sam Keen
    “Love isn't finding a perfect person. It's seeing an imperfect person perfectly.”
    ― Sam Keen
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    Toba Beta
    “Problem with an old friend who is too busy:
    he always perceives you as if never changed.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: arrogance, busy, underestimate
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    Toba Beta
    “Just because they disagree, doesn't mean you ain't right.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: be-yourself, man-for-himself
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    Toba Beta
    “Intelligence minus purpose equals stupidity.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: intelligence, purpose, stupidity
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    Toba Beta
    “Practice doesn't make perfect.
    Practice reduces the imperfection.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: imperfection, perfect, practice
    196 likes

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  • #16
    Toba Beta
    “Not learning by doing,
    but learning by risking.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: learn, life, risk
    46 likes

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  • #17
    Anna Quindlen
    “Every story has already been told. Once you've read Anna Karenina, Bleak House, The Sound and the Fury, To Kill a Mockingbird and A Wrinkle in Time, you understand that there is really no reason to ever write another novel. Except that each writer brings to the table, if she will let herself, something that no one else in the history of time has ever had."

    [Commencement Speech; Mount Holyoke College, May 23, 1999]”
    ― Anna Quindlen
    tags: creative-process, creativity, originality, point-of-view, uniqueness, writing
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    Toba Beta
    “Fanatics don't wanna see anything from another standpoints.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: fanatics, narrow-minded, point-of-view
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    Toba Beta
    “Mysteries are facts that haven't been formalized.”
    ― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity
    tags: fact, formal, mystery, point-of-view
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    Toba Beta
    “If you see it's impossible,
    you may use others' eyes.”
    ― Toba Beta, Betelgeuse Incident: Insiden Bait Al-Jauza
    tags: eyes, impossibility, others, point-of-view
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “If everyone fought for their own convictions there would be no war.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
    tags: war
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    Leo Tolstoy
    “...pero es usted más ignorante e insensato que un chiquillo que jugando con las piezas de un reloj hábilmente fabricado osara decir, porque no comprende su utilidad, que no cree en el hombre que lo ha hecho.”
    ― Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace
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    Robert Frost
    “If we couldn't laugh we would all go insane.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: laughter
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  • #24
    Victor Borge
    “Laughter is the shortest distance between two people.”
    ― Victor Borge
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    Roberto Bolaño
    “Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other people's ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.”
    ― Roberto Bolaño, 2666
    tags: books, reading
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    Stephen King
    “Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
    ― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
    tags: books, magic, reading
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    Anthony Liccione
    “Expect while reaching for the stars, people to whirl by with their dark clouds and storm upon you.”
    ― Anthony Liccione
    tags: bring-down, dark-clouds, discourage, haters, jealousy, negative-people, put-down, reaching-for-the-stars, ruin, storm
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    Mayte Esteban
    “Me pregunto por qué no es más sencillo. Debería consistir en eso. Yo actúo, interpreto un papel para el público y ellos, en la sala, se emocionan, ríen, lloran, o lo que sea que la película transmita. El espectador, cuando acaba la proyección se va y continúa con su vida.”
    ― Mayte Esteban, La chica de las fotos
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    Mayte Esteban
    “La vida es eso, empezar constantemente, solo que algunas veces no apetece.”
    ― Mayte Esteban, La chica de las fotos
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    Mayte Esteban
    “la gente se cree lo que nosotros queremos que crean, al fin y al cabo vivimos de eso, de crear ilusiones y venderlas, de fabricar mentiras…”
    ― Mayte Esteban, La chica de las fotos
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