"To be what I term a 'quality' human being one has to be transparently real and have the courage to be what he is."
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"To tolerate is to insult."
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"To express yourself in freedom, you must die to everything of yesterday. From the 'old', you derive security; from the 'new', you gain the flow."
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"Low aim, not failure, is the crime."
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"An intelligent mind is an inquiring mind. It is not satisfied with explanation, with conclusions. Nor is it a mind that believes, because belief is again another form of conclusion."
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"Persistence, persistence, and persistence. The Power can be created and maintained through daily practice - continuous effort."
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"While it may come as a profound surprise to those of us who are in the throes of an emotional or life crisis, the fact remains that the answer to virtually all of our problems resides within us already. It exist in the form of a vast reservoir of free-flowing energy that, when channeled to our muscles, can give us great strength and, when channeled to our brain, can give us great insight and understanding."
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"Like everyone else, you want to learn the way to win, but never to accept the way to lose - to accept defeat. To learn to die is to be liberated from it. So when tomorrow comes you must free your ambitious mind and learn the art of dying!"
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"Maturation is the development from environmental support to self-support."
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"Nowadays you don't go around on the street kicking people, punching people - because if you do (makes gun shape with hand), well that's it - I don't care how good you are."
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"Genius: The capacity to see and to express what is simple, simply!"
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"Faith is a state of mind that can be conditioned through self-discipline. Faith will accomplish."
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"I believe in teaching just a few students, as teaching requires a constant alert observation on each individual in order to establish a direct relationship. A good teacher cannot be fixed in a routine, and many are just that. During teaching, each moment requires a sensitive mind that is constantly changing and constantly adapting."
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"In order to control myself I must first accept myself by going with and not against my nature."
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"To tell the truth, I could beat anybody in the world."
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"It is better to live as a broken piece of jade, than to live as a useless clay."
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"Art reaches its greatest peak when devoid of self-consciousness. Freedom discovers man the moment he loses concern over what impression he is making or about to make."
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"Art calls for complete mastery of techniques, developed by reflection within the soul."
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"Not being tense but ready. Not thinking but not dreaming. Not being set but flexible. Liberation from the uneasy sense of confinement. It is being wholly and quietly alive, aware and alert, ready for whatever may come."
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"Ideas are the beginning of all achievement."
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