“Find the most talented person in the room, and if it’s not you, go stand next to him. Hang out with him. Try to be helpful.
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If you ever find that you’re the most talented person in the room, you need to find another room.”
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The more one seeks to rise into height and light, the more vigorously do ones roots struggle earthward, downward, into the dark, the deep — into evil.
“Good artists borrow, great artists steal.”—T. S. Eliot’s dictum, Igor Stravinsky, Pablo Picasso, Steve Jobs
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