Old habits are strong and jealous.

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Act as if it were impossible to fail.

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The Wright brothers flew through the smoke screen of impossibility.

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There are seeds of self-destruction in all of us that will bear only unhappiness if allowed to grow.

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All that is necessary to break the spell of inertia and frustration is to - act as if it were impossible to fail.

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The most enviable writers are those who, quite often unanalytically and unconsciously, have realized that there are different facets to their nature and are able to live and work with now one, now another, in the ascendant.

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The author of genius does keep till his last breath the spontaneity, the ready sensitiveness, of a child, the "innocence of eye" that means so much to the painter, the ability to respond freshly and quickly to new scenes, and to old scenes as though they were new; to see traits and characteristics as though each were new-minted from the hand of God instead of sorting them quickly into dusty categories and pigeon-holing them without wonder or surprise; to feel situations so immediately and keenly that the word "trite" has hardly any meaning for him; and always to see "the correspondences between things" of which Aristotle spoke two thousand years ago.

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