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There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method

There are no easy methods of learning difficult things; the method is to close your door, give out that you are not at home, and work. – Joseph de Maistre

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Do not waste a minute, not a second, in trying to demonstrate to others the merit of your own performance. If your work does not vindicate itself, you cannot vindicate it, but you can labor steadily on to something which needs no advocate but itself. – Thomas Wentworth Higginson, “Letter to a Young Contributor,” The Atlantic Monthl

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Yes, to be a good parent, you have to sacrifice, but this is not a requirement of parenting, it is a requirement of being good at something. – Robert Brault, rbrault.blogspot.com

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If you have an idea of what you want to do in your future, you must go at it with almost monastic obsession, be it music, the ballet or just a basic degree. You have to go at it single-mindedly and let nothing get in your way. – Henry Rollins

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