quotes about Simply You

last updated: November 28, 2023

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.
-- George Leonard

Source : George Leonard (1991). “Mastery: The Keys to Success and Long-term Fulfillment”, Plume Books

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“Childhood is not a race to see how quickly a child can read, write and count. It is a small window of time to learn and develop at the pace that is right for each individual child. Earlier is not better.”
“The thing with NBA teams, a lot of times they just want to get you back on the floor to play, so as a player you've got to be very, very smart.”

Source : "Bogut downplays injury concerns, relishes fresh start with Warriors". Interview with Sam Amick, www.si.com. March 28, 2012.
“I think being self-taught is the only way of really learning things, because you have to question everybody. You don't simply absorb axioms or so-called truths like they are rules. You have to test them, and you need to reflect on them, to consider the effect they create. So, you have very significant opinions about things, because they come out from your own reflections.”
“Every important machine's got to have a big red button.”
“I am living breathing freedom.”
“Ah, paths of the soul, mysterious ways of the heart! One must walk their full lengths before facing the supreme equation of Eternal Life. It is essential for you to live all their conflicts and to know them fully in the long process of spiritual ascension.”
“All the crap that we've encumbered our lives with, it's really meaningless.”
“Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.”
“Citizenship consists in the service of the country.”
“That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact.”