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Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.
Practice makes perfect, but it doesn’t make new. The gifted learn to play magnificent Mozart melodies and beautiful Beethoven symphonies, but never compose their own original scores.
Approximate author period: c. 2003 AD · contemporary
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- Adam Grant
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- Approximate author period: c. 2003 AD · contemporary
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