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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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"Always be excellent and you'll rise above the rest."

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

"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?"

"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."

"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."

"Excellence is not an event but a habit."

"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."

"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."

"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
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"Materialism, attachment to things of the world, includes pride. Many religious people suffer from pride: taking pleasure or even delight in being good, or religious."


"If you really want to learn, do not be surprised if someone tries to teach you. And do not lightly reject the method."


"Sufism is experiential. Capacities, even those for learning beyond a certain point, are provoked by Sufis, by one's own efforts and what results from them, and by an element of what is referred to by Sufis as the Divine."


"Prescribing hard work for the soft, or easy work for the hardy, is generally nonsense. What is always needed in any aim is right effort, right time, right people, right materials."
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