Practicing is not only playing your instrument, either by yourself or rehearsing with others - it also includes imagining yourself practicing. Your brain forms the same neural connections and muscle memory whether you are imagining the task or actually doing it.

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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

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We are always remaking history. Our memory is always an interpretive reconstruction of the past, so is perspective.

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I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy.― Tagore

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Each dream fulfilled leave tremendous treasure of memories, and of course, give rise to another one rather bigger. ― Sandeep Sahajpal

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All human beings have three lives: public, private, and secret.

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Let others lead small lives, but not you. Let others argue over small things, but not you.. Let others cry over small hurts, but not you. Let others leave their future in someone else's hands, but not you. ― Jim Rohn

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I have absolutely no pleasure in the stimulants in which I sometimes so madly indulge. It has not been in the pursuit of pleasure that I have periled life and reputation and reason. It has been the desperate attempt to escape from torturing memories, from a sense of insupportable loneliness and a dread of some strange impending doom.

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Base your relationships on the right values. — Dick Gephardt

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All our lives are sketches on the wide canvas of our universe.

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