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The greatest compliment one can pay a master is to compare him with Capablanca. — Irving Chernev Copy Share Image
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You're master of what you've lived, artisan at what you're living, amateur at what's next to live. — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
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I was something that is always hated in Hollywood - a perfectionist; nobody likes a perfectionist, you know. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
Nothing endures, nothing is precise and certain (except the mind of a pedant), perfection is the mere repudiation of that ineluctable marginal… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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“Funny how perfection can mean a million things. Tonight, it’s a boy and supermarket salads, the air tasting of salt and second… — Caroline George Copy Share Image
“Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The growth of a naturalist is like the growth of a musician or athlete: excellence for the talented, lifelong enjoyment for the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Mastery is not measured by the number of terrible things you eliminate from your life, but by the number of times you… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
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[...] allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!!… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is a metaphysical honour in ending the world's absurdity. Conquest or play-acting, multiple loves, absurd revolt are tributes that man pays… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near… — Jake Gyllenhaal Copy Share Image
The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
People ordinarily don't think of their orchestras as important as we'd like them to be. People don't care about their friends and… — David Ogden Stiers Copy Share Image
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Historians will come to their own judgments about President Kennedy. Here is how I choose to remember him. He was an heir… — Edward Kennedy Copy Share Image
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