"How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself."

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Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

George Leonard

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“One of my favorite writers is short story writer/essayist Jorge Luis Borges, who was blind. I'm not claiming to be anything remotely resembling a talent of Borges' caliber, but he is an inspiration and a proof that one can be a meaningful and successful writer while blind.”
“Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation.”

Source : Leonardo Boff (1995). “Ecologia, Mondialità, Mistica”
“I think when people struggle with the problem of trying to understand the art world as an idea, they misunderstand it. They think it's a world of visionaries or opportunists. But it also includes people who want to take part in this cultural exercise but don't have the required stuff, they don't have the ideas or the production.”
“And yet day and night meet fleetingly at twilight and dawn," he said, lowering his voice again and narrowing his eyes and moving his head a quarter of an inch closer to hers. "And their merging sometimes affords the beholder the most enchanted moments of all the twenty four hours. A sunrise or sunset can be ablaze with brilliance and arouse all the passion, all the yearning, in the soul of the beholder.”
“Perhaps there is some secret sort of homing instinct in books that brings them to their perfect readers. How delightful if that were true.”

Source : Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows (2009). “The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society”, p.13, A&C Black
“There's nothing that really motivates me anymore and demands that I get up in the morning. In the past it was Yves Saint Laurent.”
“I'd rather die for speaking out, than to live and be silent.”
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.”

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