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"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
"He loved the sea for deep-seated reasons: the hardworking artist's need for repose, the desire to take shelter from the demanding diversity of phenomena in the bosom of boundless simplicity, a propensity-proscribed and diametrically opposed to his mission in life and for that very reason seductive-a propensity for the unarticulated, the immoderate, the eternal, for nothingness. To repose in perfection is the desire of all those who strive for excellence, and is not nothingness a form of perfection?"
"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."
"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
"Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success."
"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!"
"The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner."
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"Remember that the most beautiful things in the world are the most useless; peacocks and lilies for instance."
"Education does not mean teaching people what they do not know. It means teaching them to behave as they do not behave."
"To be taught to read-what is the use of that, if you know not whether what you read is false or true? To be taught to write or to speak-but what is the use of speaking, if you have nothing to say? To be taught to think-nay, what is the use of being able to think, if you have nothing to think of? But to be taught to see is to gain word and thought at once, and both true."
"One of the major obstacles impeding any positive future change in our lives is that we are too busy with our current work or activity. Levi quit his tax-work, Peter stopped fishing at lake, Paul ceased being a priest. They all left their jobs because they thought it was necessary."
"When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet."
"To speak and act truth with constancy and precision is nearly as difficult, and perhaps as meretorious, as to speak it under intimidation or penalty."
"To be content in utter darkness and ignorance is indeed unmanly, and therefore we think that to love light and find knowledge must always be right. Yet wherever pride has any share in the work, even knowledge and light may be ill pursued. Knowledge is good, and light is good: yet man perished in seeking knowledge, and moths perish in seeking light; and if we, who are crushed before the moth, will not accept such mystery as is needful to us, we shall perish in like manner."
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