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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."
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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!"

"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?"

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

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."

"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."

"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."

"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."

"Each man is capable of doing one thing well. If he attempts several he will fail to achieve distinction in any."

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

"Excellence is a habit acquired by continuous improvement on the little things you do with a firm belief that it's going to be better than before!"
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"The bird which has no knowledge of pure water, has his beak in salt water all year round."


"From imperial, economic and ideological causes, many cultures are the inheritors, and hence the prisoners, of attitudes of scorn and disdain for other faiths " outlooks which are not ennobling to anyone."


"Many people who are in reality dead are walking in the streets, many who are in their graves are in reality alive."


"Do not tell your secrets to everyone in this headquarters, Earth. We have surveyed it well. There was nobody to whom to entrust secrets."
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