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

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

"Passion is never enough neither is skill."

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

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

"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!"

"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."

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

"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 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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"America's greatness has been the greatness of a free people who shared certain moral commitments. Freedom without moral commitment is aimless and promptly self-destructive."

"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."

"I am entirely certain that twenty years from now we will look back at education as it is practiced in most schools today and wonder that we could have tolerated anything so primitive."

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

"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."
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