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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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"Let your first enemy be mediocrity; it has no role to play, no word to say and no action to display in your life. Never love to swim in shallow waters; they breed nothing than fearful reptiles of failure!"

"Everybody is standing, but you must stand out.Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough!Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard!Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles!Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not?"

"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."

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

"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."

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

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

"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!"

"A restless human heart always seeks to increase personal understanding and works to attain excellence."
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"The poet begins where the man ends. The man's lot is to live his human life, the poet's to invent what is nonexistent."


"Being an artist means ceasing to take seriously that very serious person we are when we are not an artist."


"There may be as much nobility in being last as in being first, because the two positions are equally necessary in the world, the one to complement the other."


"Better beware of notions like genius and inspiration; they are a sort of magic wand and should be used sparingly by anybody who wants to see things clearly."


"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."


"Life is a series of collisions with the future; it is not the sum of what we have been, but what we yearn to be."
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