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Mastery is not something that strikes in an instant, like a thunderbolt, but a gathering power that moves steadily through time, like…
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We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure.
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All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.
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All of us celebrate our values in our behavior.
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Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
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What leaders have to remember is that somewhere under the somnolent surface is the creature that builds civilizations, the dreamer of dreams,…
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When hiring key employees, there are only two qualities to look for: judgement and taste. Almost everything else can be bought by…
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A nation is held together by shared values, shared beliefs, shared attitudes. That is what enables a people to maintain a cohesive…
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Few have excellence thrust upon them ... They achieve it. They do not achieve it…
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More and more Americans feel threatened by runaway technology, by large-scale organization, by overcrowding. More and more Americans are appalled by the…
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Some people seem to believe that for each problem there is a solution readily available - a solution that can be promptly…
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The best kept secret in America today is that people would rather work hard for something they believe in than live a…
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You might think that after thousands of years of coming up too soon and getting frozen, the crocus family would have had…
— Robert Benchley
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A single crocus blossom ought to be enough to convince our heart that springtime, no matter how predictable, is somehow a gift,…
— David Steindl-Rast
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During the winter, you head out into the darkness for a run. When spring comes, and the first crocus pokes up its…
— Nina Kuscsik
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I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show…
— J D Salinger
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Nature is none other than God in things... Animals and plants are living effects of Nature; Whence all of God is in…
— Giordano Bruno
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Lowly, with a broken neck, The crocus lays her cheek to mire.
— George Meredith
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We get richer and richer in filthier and filthier communities until we reach a final state of affluent misery - crocus on…
— John W. Gardner
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Spring TO what purpose, April, do you return again? Beauty is not enough. You can no longer quiet me with the redness…
— Edna St. Vincent Millay
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