“Almost everything that we do that is worth doing is done in the first place in the mind's eye.”
Jacob Bronowski (1908–1974) Polish-born British mathematician
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“The truth is, almost everything we do is done poorly when we first start doing it – that’s how we learn.”
Source: The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
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