"The practice sessions of aspiring champions have a specific and never-changing purpose: Progress.Â Every second of every minute of every hour, the goal is to extend one's mind and body, to push oneself beyond the outer limits of one's capacities, to engage so deeply in the task that one leaves the training session, literally, a changed person."

-- Matthew Syed

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“There's only two ways to sum up music; either it's good or it's bad. If it's good you don't mess about it, you just enjoy it.”
“Life Insurance is the only tool that takes pennies and guarantees dollars.”
“All of my characters are a little bit based on people I know in real life. You know when you do that you have to change the character a little bit in case your friend or your relative reads the book, because you don't want them to know you wrote about them... They might get mad.”
“We barely missed killing Bin Laden. There were numerous findings issued by the President to kill him. We rolled up terrorist cells. We stopped the millennium bombings.”
“The highest percentage of African Americans own their own homes today than ever in our nation's history.”
“It would be quite amusing to preach a bit to all those people who for many years now have been looking at our paintings and either laughed or shook their heads reproachfully. They do not believe that these impressions, these instant sensations, could contain even the smallest grain of sanity. If a tree is red or blue, or a face is blue or green, they are sure that is insanity.”
“The whole system has been long since swept away, and its records merely remain as illustrations of perverted ingenuity.”

Source : "Saturn and its System". Book by Richard Anthony Proctor, (2nd edition), Chapter 2, p. 32, 1882.
“It grew late. Through the open door, stealthily, came the scent of madonna lilies, almost as if it were prowling abroad.”

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