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Quote card: to practice in all things a certain sprezzatura, so as to conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort.

“to practice in all things a certain sprezzatura, so as to conceal all art and make whatever is done or said appear to be without effort.”

Baldassare Castiglione, The Book of the Courtier (1528, Charles Singleton translation). Sprezzatura: the ease that comes from hard practice.

The chef who plates up calmly in a rush, or the driver who reverses in one go, makes it look easy because of years of practice.

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