"Keep practicing, even when you seem to be getting nowhere."

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

George Leonard

“You never have any idea where your movie's going to go when you're shooting - you're in this little bubble. Everything you care about is getting the next step right: getting the script right, finding the right actors, shooting it.”
“All scientific men will be delighted to extend their warmest congratulations to Tesla and to express their appreciation of his great contributions to science.”
“What mom cares about most is that I'm happy, healthy and enjoying my life.”
“I want to take you for pleasure, and hold you in my arms for desire. I want you to know that it is your kiss that I want, not another heir to the throne. You can know that I love you, quite for yourself, when I come to your bed, and not as the Yorkâ€™s broodmare.â€ I tilt back my head and look at him under my eyelashes. â€œYou think to bed me for love and not for children? Isnâ€™t that sin?â€ His arm comes around my waist and his palm cups my breast. â€œI shall make sure that it feels richly sinful,â€ - Edward IV to Elizabeth Woodville -”
“Love is putting yourself second”
“If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.”
“Dream, rather than let yourself be dreamt”

Source : Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche, Mark Dahlby (2004). “The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep”, p.123, Motilal Banarsidass Publ.
“In the moral sphere, every act of justice or charity involves putting ourselves in the other person's place and thus transcending our own competitive particularity.”

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