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Selected from Laura Moncur's Motivational Quotations - March 19, 2019
Beware of dissipating your powers; strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.
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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749 - 1832)  
When the conduct of men is designed to be influenced, persuasion, kind unassuming persuasion, should ever be adopted. It is an old and true maxim that 'a drop of honey catches more flies than a gallon of gall.' So with men. If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his sincere friend. Therein is a drop of honey that catches his heart, which, say what he will, is the great highroad to his reason, and which, once gained, you will find but little trouble in convincing him of the justice of your cause, if indeed that cause is really a good one.
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Abraham Lincoln (1809 - 1865)  
So you see, imagination needs moodling - long, inefficient, happy idling, dawdling and puttering.
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Brenda Ueland  
The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape...
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Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)  
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