"The more words you know the more clearly and powerfully you will think . . . and the more ideas you will invite into your mind."

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Source : Wilfred Funk (1986). “Six Weeks to Words of Power”

Wilfred Funk

#Thinking Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Mind Quotes

“Closeout games are actually kind of easy.”
“I love to thik of my little children whom God has called to himself as away at school-at the best school in the universe, under the best teachers, learning the best things, in the best possible manner. O death! We thank thee for the light that thou wilt shed upon our ignorance.”
“Some people always know the price, but not the value”
“Inconsiderate to the last, Josef Stalin, a man who never had to meet a deadline, had the bad taste to die in installments.”

Source : A. J. Liebling (2005). “Just Enough Liebling: Classic Work by the Legendary New Yorker Writer”, p.524, Macmillan
“Music is colorless. It's for everybody, it's for the world, it's for everybody to enjoy.”
“Bobby Fischer started off each game with a great advantage: after the opening he had used less time than his opponent and thus had more time available later on. The major reason why he never had serious time pressure was that his rapid opening play simply left sufficient time for the middlegame.”
“All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.”
“There's a right way and a wrong way to do things. If you make a chair, you want to make a nice chair. You want people to admire it. I think doing something well is a form of respect for humanity in general. I have found that all incompetence comes from not paying attention, which comes from people doing something that they don't want to do. And doing what you don't want to do means either you have no choice, or you don't think that the moments of your life are worth fighting for.”

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