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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

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

"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."

"Become so good they can't ingore you, and you are on the path to success. Become so good they can't stand you, and you are on the path to greatness."

"He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity-proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive-a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?"

"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"

"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."

"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."

"I live my life progressing for nothing else but the best."

"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."
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"Intelligence will teach you how to make a living, wisdom will teach you how to make a life."

"A diamond will never tell you how valuable it is; if you don't already know, you are not worthy of it."

"School is a hospital where people recover from ignorance, life is a hospital where people recuperate from arrogance."

"The real power of a leader is in the number of minds he can reach, hearts he can touch, souls he can move, and lives he can change."
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