"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."

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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."

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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."

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"But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation."

Tom Robbins, American Author

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"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."

Steve Jobs, American Businessman

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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."

Seth Godin, American Writer

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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Be excellent in your own terms."

Abhijit Naskar, Indian Author

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"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."

Idries Shah, Indian Author

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"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."

Vikrmn, Indian Author

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"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

Israelmore Ayivor, Ghanaian Author

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"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

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"It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing."

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"Greed, like the love of comfort, is a kind of fear."

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"The dread of lonliness is greater than the fear of bondage, so we get married."

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"Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life."

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"We love but once, for once only are we perfectly equipped for loving."

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"Idleness is only a coarse name for my infinite capacity for living in the present."

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"The more books we read, the clearer it becomes that the true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and that no other task is of any consequence."

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