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|61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br />
|61 = '''A sincere effort is all you can ask.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [http://deshoda.com/words/truisms/ Truisms]<br />
|62 = '''The exact measure of one’s understanding of anything is rather the extent to which one can couch one’s understanding of it in words; and the measure of one’s understanding of someone else’s explanation is one’s ability to explain his explanation in one’s own terms. Accordingly, one of the most efficacious ways to develop one’s understanding of anything is to try to explain it to someone else; teaching does return a reward. For explaining one’s experience forces one to give narrative form to it; and as the words come and the sentences flow, the information is organized and systematized: the facts “fall into place.”'''<br />
|62 = '''If you want to master something, teach it.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Leslie Dewart<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— Richard Feynman<br />
|63 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
|63 = '''Writing is easy.  All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.'''<br />
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>
     <cite style="font-size:0.9em; font-style:normal;">— [[Red Smith]]</cite>

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Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
—John Steinbeck

       —add a quotation about knowledge or writing

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