Practice any art, music, singing, dancing, acting, drawing, painting, sculpting, poetry, fiction, essays, reportage, no matter how well or badly, not to get money and fame, but to experience becoming, to find out what's inside you, to make your soul grow.

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Without ambition one starts nothing. Without work, one finishes nothing. The prize will not be sent to you. You have to win it. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

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I avoid that bleak first hour of the working day during which my still sluggish senses and body make every chore a penance. I find that in arriving later, the work which I do perform is of a much higher quality. ― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

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People are felt rather than seen after the first few moments.

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She is involved in work her soul must have. ― Alice Walker

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We risk all in being too greedy.

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We know that the nature of genius is to provide idiots with ideas twenty years later.

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Passion isn't something you work on. It's more important to construct a good team, to know how you are going to play, how to read the match. You have to truly understand the game.

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The dilemma is that if one does not risk anything one risks even more

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I’d far rather be happy than right any day. – Douglas Adams

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