How do you best move toward ...

How do you best move toward mastery? To put it simply, you practice diligently, but you practice primarily for the sake of the practice itself.
 George Leonard

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Only the schools’ inefficiency can account for creativity surviving after age 25.
 George Leonard
Perhaps we'll never know how far the path can go, how much a human being can truly achieve, until we realize that the ultimate reward is not a gold medal but the path itself.
 George Leonard
The essence of boredom is to be found in the obsessive search for novelty. Satisfaction lies in mindful repetition, the discovery of endless richness in subtle variations on familiar themes.
 George Leonard
Running, close companion to death, summons us to the most vivid acts of life. Our ancestors (we have forgotten) ran for food and for love, love and lust. For us, a prime symbol of sexuality is the automobile. For the ancients it was the chase, the foot race. Satyr and nymph, maiden and god, hot pursuit. The mythic hunters, Diana and Atalanta, available only to the males, men or gods, who could outrun them; death to all others.
 George Leonard
The more you move in rhythm with someone, the closer you become with that person.
 George Leonard