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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."

"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!"

"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."

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

"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."

"By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary."

"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."

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

"The hallmark of our age is the tension between aspirations and sluggish institutions."

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

"When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale."
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