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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"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!"

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

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

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

"Let these 2 quotes sink in. In tandem together. "A goal is not always meant to be reached, it often serves as something to aim at." - Bruce Lee "Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall catch excellence. - Vince Lombardi The key here is thing to take away from the tandem of these quotes is that even those you will never achieve perfection, the fact that you will aim towards unfathomable goals you will along the journey catch greatness."

"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."

"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."

"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."

"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!"

"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?"
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"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."


"Political extremism involves two prime ingredients: an excessively simple diagnosis of the world's ills, and a conviction that there are identifiable villains back of it all."


"Much education today is monumentally ineffective. All too often we are giving young people cut flowers when we should be teaching them to grow their own plants."


"The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life."


"If you have some respect for people as they are, you can be more effective in helping them to become better than they are."


"The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept."
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