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"Coach said. "the quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence, regardless of his chosen field of endeavor"."
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"The only way when your thirst for excellence is satisfied is when you take up the challenge to do a little more every day than you have already been doing every day!"

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

"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"

"Art needs no victory because it is already the victory of the meticulous mind!"

"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."

"Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel."

"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."

"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."

"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."
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"He was going to punish me now. He couldn't beat me up with his old man fists, but he could hurt me with his old man words."


"There are all kinds of addicts, I guess. We all have pain. And we all look for ways to make the pain go away."


"I didn't yet know that romantic heroes-famous and not-are usually aimless nomads in disguise."
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