"Creativity follows mastery, so mastery of skills is the first priority for young talent."

-- Benjamin Bloom

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“He who does not hate the false does not love the true; and he to whom it is all the same whether it be God's word or man's, is himself unrenewed at heart.”
“By the time I got to building synthesizers, I had perhaps 20 years experience building electronic musical instruments.”
“And what made these heart-to-hearts possible--you might even say what made the whole friendship possible during that time--was this understanding we had that anything we told each other during these moments would be treated with careful respect: that we'd honor confidences, and that no matter how much we rowed, we wouldn't use against each other anything we'd talked about during those sessions.”
“Every last cast is actually a first cast. The first cast and first chance to catch the next fish. The next time you anguish about whether to make that last cast, forget it - the anguish that is - and cast away. The next fish caught on a last cast will not be the first.”
“My parents are both very funny but they're also relatively soft-spoken, normal human beings while I'm just a lunatic. I don't know where this loud, ballsy, hammy ridiculousness came from. I'm just glad I followed my goals and my parents did too. It's not like we even had a plan when I dragged my mom to Los Angeles.”
“It should be judged primarily on grace, elegance and beauty rather than simply on mechanic tumbling.”

Source : "Khorkina lashes judges as cheats", www.theguardian.com. August 22, 2004.
“I believe you win games by what you do from your first practice until your first game”
“When people say 'What are underground comics?' I think the best way you can define them is just the absolute freedom involved... we didn't have anyone standing over us.”

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