We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other's people's models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.

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The production of too many useful things results in too many useless people.

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Living in dreams of yesterday, we find ourselves still dreaming of impossible future conquests. -Charles Lindbergh

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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.

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Everyone wants to be strong and self sufficient, but few are willing to put in the work necessary to achieve worthy goals. Mahatma Gandhi

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Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together. ― Anais Nin

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To find joy in work is to discover the fountain of youth. — Pearl S. Buck

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Strong reasons make strong actions.

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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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Sometimes we have to do the work even though we don’t yet see a glimmer on the horizon that it’s actually going to be possible. — Angela Davis

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