"If one's life depends on doing something right, as in the case of the tightrope walker, one will practice on a much deeper level."

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Source : Kenny Werner (1996). “Effortless Mastery: Liberating the Master Musician Within”, Jamey Aebersold Jazz Incorporated

Kenny Werner

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“To my mind [ Jonathan Edwards] is an interesting figure because he is both a canonical Reformed thinker, and yet also someone that pushed the envelope in a number of key areas of theology.”
“If it were ever allowable to forget what is due to superiority of rank, it would be when the privileged themselves remember it.”
“Do not doubt him who tells you he is afraid, but be afraid of him who tells you he has no doubts.”

Source : "100 Poems Without a Country". Book by Erich Fried, 1978.
“And woe succeeds woe.”
“Seek the truth, not what is comfortable. Seek the real, not the easy.”
“The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.”

Source : David Breashears, Jon Krakauer (2000). “High Exposure: An Enduring Passion for Everest and Unforgiving Places”, p.274, Simon and Schuster
“The Soviet Union, true to the Leninist principles of respect for the rights and national independence of all peoples great or small, has always been and is guided in its relations with other countries by the principles of mutual respect for territorial integrity and sovereignty, non-aggression, non-intervention in each other's internal affairs, equality and mutual benefits, peaceful coexistence and economic cooperation.”

Source : "The Nineteen Days: A Broadcaster's Account of the Hungarian Revolution". Book by George R. Urban, 1957.
“I'm not one of those people the tabloids chase around.”

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