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What is your greatest fear?

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Question Do you rely on inspiration or discipline to make work? Craft & work
It takes a combination of ways to do these things, more than discipline. It’s a way of life. It’s like diet or gymnastics. You can know all the gymnastic things, all the exercises. You can know all the diets, but if you don’t do the diets, if you don’t do the exercise, it won’t work. It’s the same if you have some rules, but you don’t live them. It doesn’t work.
Recorded Academy of Achievement interview, Washington, D.C., 2 December 2007 source ↗

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