"The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches."

-- Anatoly Karpov

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“Part of the problem about authenticity is that virtues aren't the only things that are habit forming: the more someone behaves in a way that is damaging to self or to others, the more "natural" it will both seem and actually be. Spontaneity, left to itself, can begin by excusing bad behavior and end by congratulating vice.”
“I have no technical training and am completely uneducated in music.”
“Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object. Plunge deep enough into the object to see something like a hidden glimmering there.”
“Weep not for little Leonie, abducted by a French Marquis. Though loss of honor was a wrench, just think how it's improved her French.”

Source : Harry Graham (1930). “More Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes”
“The very basis of true peace of mind is a benevolent wish to see all the world as happy as one's self ...”

Source : Susanna Rowson (2015). “Charlotte Temple”, p.33, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I remember the time an older man asked me when I was young, "Do you know what you are doing now?" I thought it was some kind of trick question. Tell me," I said. You are building your memories," he replied, "so make them good ones.”
“I pick up the New York Times or Time and it's talking about the latest rock group, which I'm sure is exciting to some people, but it neglects a huge area of music.”
“I'm not a big believer in slavishly following research. It's one of the things that's wrong with television is that if you throw the whole - the decision-making process to the research department, you're not making any instinctive, visceral judgments about programs, which are show business.”

Source : Source: www.npr.org

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