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“Others have falsely claimed to be the inspiration for Tom Booker in The Horse Whisperer. The one who truly inspired me was Buck Brannaman. His skill, understanding and his gentle, loving heart have parted the clouds for countless troubled creatures. Buck is the Zen master of the horse world.”

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Author:Nicholas Evans

“Skill alone cannot teach or produce a great short story, which condenses the obsession of the creature; it is a hallucinatory presence manifest from the first sentence to fascinate the reader, to make him lose contact with the dull reality that surrounds him, submerging him in another that is more intense and compelling.”

Firsts Stories Reality Loses Teach Produce Reader Skills Creatures Sentences Intense Obsession Contact Dull Surround Manifest Short Story Compelling Great Short

Author:Julio Cortazar

“We can assume that most people, most of the time, are moral creatures. But imagine that this morality is like a gearshift that at times gets pushed into neutral. When that happens, morality is disengaged. If the car happens to be on an incline, car and driver move precipitously downhill. It is then the nature of the circumstances that determines outcomes, not the driver's skills or intentions.”

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Author:Philip Zimbardo

“As I became a creature of the empty tunnels, survival became easier and more difficult all at once. I gained in the physical skills and experience necessary to live on. I could defeat almost anything that wandered into my chosen domain. It did not take me long, however, to discover one nemesis that I could neither defeat nor flee. It followed me wherever I went - indeed, the farther I ran, the more it closed in around me. My enemy was solitude, the interminable, incessant silence of hushed corridors.”

Long Difficult Silence Enemy Easier Solitude Skills Creatures Survival Empty Defeat Chosen Ran Take Me Domain Tunnels Corridors Incessant Nemesis

Author:R. A. Salvatore

“We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.”

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Book:Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!”

Source: Jonathan Livingston Seagull: The Complete Edition

“What is needed, however, isn't just that people working together be nice to each other. It is discipline. Discipline is hard--harder than trustworthiness and skill and perhaps even than selflessness. We are by nature flawed and inconstant creatures. We can't even keep from snacking between meals. We are not built for discipline. We are built for novelty and excitement, not for careful attention to detail. Discipline is something we have to work at.”

Source: The Checklist Manifesto: How to Get Things Right

“Slowly I learnt the ways of humans: how to ruin, how to hate, how to debase, how to humiliate. And at the feet of my Master I learnt the highest of human skills, the skill no other creature owns: I finally learnt how to lie.”

Way Humans Lying Hate Feet Masters Skills Creatures Highest Ruins Humiliate

Author:Nick Dear