"It is an illusion to think that the matter can be resolved through words."
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"Don't think about your errors or failures; otherwise, you'll never do a thing."
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"The Work: 1. Is it true? 2. Can you absolutely know that it’s true? 3. How do you react, what happens, when you believe that thought? 4. Who would you be without the thought?"
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"At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself."
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"So many dancers feel that what they look like is more important than who they are. This is a real danger for dancers who focus for years on appearances and think of themselves as merely a body. The choreographer can't work with them in the realm of ideas. It's a huge problem if they haven't been connecting internally. If they've decided that what's inside is of little value, they can only try to approximate some kind of look."
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"If there's any illness for which people offer many remedies, you may be sure that particular illness is incurable, I think."
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"Most private traders on a losing streak keep trying to trade their way out of a hole. A loser thinks a successful trade is just around the corner, and that his luck is about to turn. He keeps putting on more trades and increases his size, all the while digging himself a deeper hole in the ice. The sensible thing to do would be to reduce your trading size and then stop and review your system."
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"Knowing the edge of your competency is important. If you think you know more than you do, you will get in trouble."
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"There is nothing so confining as the prisons of our own perceptions."
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"Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong - these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history."
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"I'm good at thinking outside the box, so much that you realise it's not a box to begin with."
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"With the camera, it's all or nothing. You either get what you're after at once, or what you do has to be worthless. I don't think the essence of photography has the hand in it so much. The essence is done very quietly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take, you have to do the editing."
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"If you get hold of a head of hair on somebody you've never seen before, cut beautiful shapes, cut beautiful architectural angles and she walks out looking so different - I think that's masterful."
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"I love the acquaintance of young people; because, in the first place, I do not like to think myself growing old. In the next place, young acquaintances must last longest, if they do last; and then, sir, young men have more virtue than old men; they have more generous sentiments in every respect."
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"Thinking is my fighting."
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"Don’t think. Thinking is the enemy of creativity."
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"I don't think the robots are taking over. I think the men who play with toys have taken over. And if we don't take the toys out of their hands, we're fools."
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"It was easier for me to think of a world without a creator than of a creator loaded with all the contradictions of the world."
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"A woman is not property, and husbands who think otherwise are living in a dreamworld."
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"I think life changes every year. This is just a little more comfortable."
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