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  1. Fulton J. Sheen _ Seven Words of Jesus and Mary:

    Why are those who are notoriously undisciplined and unmoral also most contemptuous of religion and morality? They are trying to solace their own unhappy lives by pulling the happy down to their own abysmal depths.
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  2. Doris Kearns Goodwin _ The Bully Pulpit: Theodore

    I have plenty of information now, but I can't get it into words. I'm afraid it's too big a task for me. I wonder if I will find everything in life too big for my abilities. Well, time will tell." Theodore Roosevelt, writing in naval history in his spare time while in law school"
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  3. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    This is the other secret that real artists know and wannabe writers don't. When we sit down each day and do our work, power concentrates around us. The Muse takes note of our dedication. She approves. We have earned favor in her sight. When we sit down and work, we become like a magnetized rod that attracts iron filings. Ideas come. Insights accrete.
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  4. Steven Pressfield _ The War of Art: Break Through

    We must do our work for its own sake, not for fortune or attention or applause.
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  5. Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life

    The most demanding part of living a lifetime as an artist is the strict discipline of forcing oneself to work steadfastly along the nerve of one's own most intimate sensitivity.
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  6. Annie Dillard _ The Writing Life

    Only after a writer lets literature shape her can she perhaps shape literature. In working-class France, when an apprentice got hurt, or when he got tired, the experienced workers said, "It is the trade entering his body." The art must enter the body, too.
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  7. Elisabeth Elliot _ Discipline: The Glad Surrender

    The believer alone will be able to hear the call. It comes from beyond ourselves, beyond our society, beyond the climate of opinion and prejudice and rebellion and skepticism in which we live, and beyond our time and taste. It draws toward the center of all things, that still place of which T.S. Eliot wrote : Against the Word the unstilled world still whirledAbout the centre of the silent Word.
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  8. Elisabeth Elliot _ Discipline: The Glad Surrender

    If I am to love the Lord my God with all my mind, there will not be room in it for carnality, for pride, for anxiety, for the love of myself. How can the mind be filled with the love of the Lord and have space left over for things like that?
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  9. Elisabeth Elliot _ Discipline: The Glad Surrender

    Nothing has done more damage to the Christian view of life than the hideous notion that those who are truly spiritual have lost all interest in the world and its beauties.
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  10. Joseph J. Ellis _ Revolutionary Summer: The

    One-year enlistment had proven problematic since the troops were scheduled to rotate out of the army just when they had begun to internalize the discipline of military service and became reliable soldiers.
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  11. Joseph J. Ellis _ The Quartet: Orchestrating the

    It took him {Washington} more than a year to gain control over his own aggressive instincts.
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  12. Randy Alcorn _ Money, Possessions and

    To procrastinate obedience is to disobey God.
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