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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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"Those who believe in quality produce quality goods."
"Perfection is pure action that comes with zeal to excel."
"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
"Each person you admire is simply a reminder of your own latent excellence, your own unacknowledged beauty."
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
"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."
"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?"
"We hire people who want to make the best things in the world."
"In anything you set out to do, don't try your best. Do your best."
"A servant who serves excellently from his whole heart with due courage and humility is never a servant, but a master of his work!"
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"A revolution only lasts fifteen years, a period which coincides with the effectiveness of a generation."
"The characteristic of the hour is that the commonplace mind, knowing itself to be commonplace, has the assurance to proclaim the rights of the commonplace and to impose them wherever it will."
"We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on himself, and the latter who makes no demands on himself."
"We live at a time when man believes himself fabulously capable of creation, but he does not know what to create."
"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."
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