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• What distinguishes a great mnemonist, I learned, is the ability to create lavish images on the fly, to paint in the mind a scene so unlike any other it cannot be forgotten. And to do it quickly. Many competitive mnemonists argue that their skills are less a feat of memory than of creativity.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Creativity, Skills

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• The tantalizing discomfort of perplexity is what inspires otherwise ordinary men and women to extraordinary feats of ingenuity and creativity; nothing quite focuses the mind like dissonant details awaiting harmonious resolution.

  Brian Greene

  Creativity, Men, Inspire

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• Apparently, the most difficult feat for a Cambridge male is to accept a woman not merely as feeling, not merely as thinking, but as managing a complex, vital interweaving of both.

  Sylvia Plath

  Fake People, Women, Independent

  "Sylvia Plath: Method and Madness". Book by Edward Butscher (p. 181), 2003.

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• Anybody with ability can play in the big leagues. But to be able to trick people year in and year out the way I did, I think that was a much greater feat.

  Bob Uecker

  Sports, Thinking, Years

  Bill Schroeder, Drew Olson, Craig Counsell, Bob Uecker (2016). “If These Walls Could Talk: Milwaukee Brewers: Stories from the Milwaukee Brewers Dugout, Locker Room, and Press Box”, p.46, Triumph Books

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• 'Harry Potter' created a generation of readers in an era when kids could have disappeared into the depths of the Internet. That's no small feat. Every book series owes J.K. Rowling a debt of gratitude.

  Gary Ross

  Gratitude, Book, Kids

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• If you look at people that have survived crashing in the mountains and lived up in the snow for 40 days - it's possible to do extraordinary feats.

  Sylvester Stallone

  People, Snow, Mountain

  Interview with Chad Williams, www.hollywoodreporter.com. June 11, 2010.

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• Because when you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you're disrespectful to inspiration, and we as musicians have to inspire people who go to work every day, and they listen to that Beyonce album and they feel like it takes them to another place.

  Kanye West

  Music, Art, Inspiration

  "Grammys: Kanye West Rails Against Beck, Explains Stage Rush, Bashes Show" by Ashley Lee , Aaron Couch, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 8, 2015.

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• Chávez inadvertently made the US drug war tactics look good. Quite a feat, given the disaster which is the drug war. After expelling the DEA (not necessarily a bad thing, given its record in Colombia and elsewhere), he failed to devise a credible strategy for Venezuela.

  Rory Carroll

  War, Drug, Looks

  "Covering Hugo ChГЎvez: 'If Only He Ruled As Well As He Campaigned'". Interview with Jeremy Lybarger, www.motherjones.com. March 8, 2013.

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• It may be that the invention of the aeroplane flying-machine will be deemed to have been of less material value to the world than the discovery of Bessemer and open-hearth steel, or the perfection of the telegraph, or the introduction of new and more scientific methods in the management of our great industrial works. To us, however, the conquest of the air, to use a hackneyed phrase, is a technical triumph so dramatic and so amazing that it overshadows in importance every feat that the inventor has accomplished.

  Waldemar Kaempffert

  Air, Discovery, Perfection

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• Brimstone once told me that to stay true in the face of evil is a feat of strength.

  Laini Taylor

  Evil, Faces, Stay True

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• I'd worked on a series of Chicken Soup for the Teenage Soul books called The Real Deal for HCI books, which featured essays and poems from teens.Finding the right authors for the series has been no easy feat, mostly because I'm looking for a perfect blend of a teen girl with an interesting story or hook, fantastic writing talent, and the confidence to commit to writing a 30,000+ word book in a matter of months. It's a huge commitment and I recognize that, so the fit has to be there from all these different angles.

  Deborah Reber

  Girl, Teenage, Real

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• In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don't ever want me to say I'm great?

  Kanye West

  Song, America, Want

  "Kayne West Poses as Jesus, Says He's Addicted to Porn". www.foxnews.com. January 24, 2006.

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• Reaching the top is a monumental achievement, but remaining there may be the most spectacular feat of all.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Achievement, May

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• During the reign of Rameses III (the Twentieth Dynasty) Egypt saw a flowering of its civilization and the harp became the royal instrument of priests and kings. Often times they had as many as 21 strings. Under the manipulation "the Minstrels of the Gods" the music was of rare potency. "Musical Medicine" was an actuality. Healing, along with numerous so-called "supernatural feats" was attributed to this art.

  Corinne Heline

  Art, Kings, Inspiration

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• One who was born in the house of a warrior, regardless of his rank or class, first acquaints himself with a man of military feats and achievements in loyalty....Everyone knows that if a man doesn't hold filial piety toward his own parents he would also neglect his duties toward his lord. Such a neglect means a disloyalty toward humanity. Therefore such a man doesn't deserve to be called 'samurai'.

  Takeda Shingen

  Loyalty, Military, Mean

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• I fear the popular notion of success stands in direct opposition in all points to the real and wholesome success. One adores public opinion, the other, private opinion; one, fame, the other, desert; one, feats, the other, humility; one, lucre, the other, love; one, monopoly, and the other, hospitality of mind.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Real, Humility

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Society and Solitude: Twelve Chapters”, p.246, London S. Low, Son & Marston 1870.

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• Was there nought better than to enjoy? No feat which, done, would make time break, And let us pent-up creatures through Into eternity, our due? No forcing earth teach heaven's employ?

  Robert Browning

  Time, Heaven, Done

  Richard Cronin, Robert Browning, Dorothy McMillan (2015). “Robert Browning”, p.396, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Tom [McCarthy] said to me, "Buddy, you got an Oscar nomination through that haircut! That's the real feat, man."

  Mark Ruffalo

  Real, Men, Oscars

  "Mark Ruffalo talks Spotlight, Thor: Ragnarok and Columbo". Interview with Phil De Semlyen, www.empireonline.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I consider myself an alchemist. An alchemist is basically a mystical chemist, right? And one of the great feats that alchemists used to do is they would take lead - just take a chunk of lead - and they could turn lead into gold.

  Will Smith

  Alchemist, Gold, Used

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Keeping your family together is an extraordinary feat - especially in the face of great conflict.

  DeVon Franklin

  Together, Faces, Conflict

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• But this is not a world of free freights. One pays according to an iron schedule--for every strength the balanced weakness; for every high a corresponding low; for every fictitious god-like moment an equivalent time in reptilian slime. For every feat of telescoping long days and weeks of life into mad magnificent instants, one must pay with shortened life, and, oft-times, with savage usury added.

  Jack London

  Iron, Mad, Long

  Jack London (2016). “John Barleycorn”, p.28, Xist Publishing

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• When people say that kids change your life, it's no small feat what they do. I've stressed about competition my whole life, but the minute I held my son Blaise in my arms for the first time, those stresses diminished.

  Amanda Beard

  Stress, Kids, Son

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As Walt Whitman correctly surmised, we are large and we harbor multitudes within us. And those multitudes are locked in chronic battle. There is an ongoing conversation among the different factions in your brain, each competing to control the single output channel of your behavior. As a result, you can accomplish the strange feats of arguing with yourself, cursing at yourself, and cajoling yourself to do something - feats that modern computers simply do not do.

  David Eagleman

  Brain, Battle, Different

  Source: www.goodreads.com

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• It is not expected of critics that they should help us to make sense of our lives; they are bound only to attempt the lesser feat of making sense of the ways we try to make sense of our lives.

  Frank Kermode

  Trying, Way, Helping

  Frank Kermode (2000). “The Sense of an Ending: Studies in the Theory of Fiction with a New Epilogue”, p.9, Oxford University Press

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• Now, it is very necessary that we should not flinch from seeing what is vile and debasing. There is filth on the floor, and it must be scraped up with the muck rake; and there are times and places where this service is the most needed of all the services that can be performed. But the man who never does anything else, who never thinks or speaks or writes, save of his feats with the muck rake, speedily becomes, not a help but one of the most potent forces for evil.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  The Man with the Muck-rake, delivered 14 April 1906

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