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"Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."
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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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"You stick a bunch of drunken murderers together, ain't long before some turn to thieving, then to lying, then to bad language, and pretty soon to sobriety, raising families and making an honest living."
"It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes."
"A set of huge marble busts stared smugly down from on high: great merchants and financiers of Styrian history, by the look of them. Criminals made heroes by colossal success."
"The lowly have small ambitions, and are satisfied with small indulgences. They need not get fair treatment. They need only think that they do."
"Strange, isn't it,' mused Glokta as he watched him struggle for air. 'Big men, small men, thin men, fat men, clever men, stupid men, they all respond the same to a fist in the guts. One minute you think you're the most powerful man in the world. The next you can't even breathe by yourself."
"One cannot grow without pain. One cannot improve without it. Suffering drives us to achieve great things."
"Sometimes it doesn't matter too much what choice you make, as long as you make it quick and stick to it."
"He is dead and I, the self serving coward that I am, still live. Life is not fair. There is no pattern. People die at random. Something everyone knows, but no one truly believes. They think that when it comes to them there will be a lesson, a meaning, a story worth telling. That death will come to them as a dread scholar, a fell knight, a terrible emperor.Death is a bored clerk, with too many orders to fill. There is no reckoning. No profound moment. It creeps up on us from behind, and snatches us away while we shit."
"Monza never had understood why getting out a tit or two made for a better painting. But painters seemed to think it did, so tits is what you got."
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