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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
"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."
"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."
"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."
"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!"
"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
"Passion is never enough neither is skill."
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"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."
"The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else."
"It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government."
"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems."
"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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