We learn by example and by direct experience because there are real limits to the adequacy of verbal instruction.

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"People who bring transformative change have courage, know how to re-frame the problem and have a sense of urgency."

- Malcolm Gladwell

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"The act of facing overwhelming odds produces greatness and beauty."

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"Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig."

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"Practice isn’t the thing you do once you’re good. It’s the thing you do that makes you good."

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

- Vince Gironda

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

- Vincent van Gogh

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