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If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
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Martin Luther King Jr. |
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My meaning simply is, that whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do well; that whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself to completely; that in great aims and in small, I have always been thoroughly in earnest.
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Charles Dickens |
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
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Henry Ward Beecher |
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If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
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John Wooden |
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Focus on making yourself better, not on thinking that you are better.
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Bohdi Sanders |
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Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
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Robert A. Heinlein |
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence
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Vince Lombardi |
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There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art.
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Pat Conroy |
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You can't really think hard about what you're doing and listen to the radio at the same time. Maybe they didn't see their job as having anything to do with hard thought, just wrench twiddling.
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Robert M. Pirsig |