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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
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"Passion is never enough neither is skill."
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"An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection."
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"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
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"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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"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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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."
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"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."
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"Remember, each of us needs to be the best in our field."
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"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."
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"Inferiority is what you enjoy in your best friends."
Friendship
"In matters of religion and matrimony I never give any advice; because I will not have anybody's torments in this world or the next laid to my charge."
Religion
"He makes people pleased with him by making them first pleased with themselves."
People
"I find, by experience, that the mind and the body are more than married, for they are most intimately united; and when one suffers, the other sympathizes."
Experience
"A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones."
Mind
"Custom has made dancing sometimes necessary for a young man; therefore mind it while you learn it, that you may learn to do it well, and not be ridiculous, though in a ridiculous act."
Act
"Politicians neither love nor hate. Interest, not sentiment, directs them."
Love
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
Courage
"Honest error is to be pitied, not ridiculed."
Mistake
"Remember, as long as you live, that nothing but strict truth can carry you through the world, with either your conscience or your honor unwounded."
Truth
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