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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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Everybody likes a bit of gossip to some point, as long as it's gossip with some point to it. That's why I…
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History is full of people who thought they were right -- absolutely right, completely right, without a shadow of a doubt. And…
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Basically everything I've done in art, I was in possession of when I was 20 years old. I use a waste retrieval…
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Journalism, like history, has no therapeutic value; it is better able to diagnose than to cure, and it provides society with a…
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Religious belief, like history itself, is a story that is always unfolding, always subject to inquiry and ripe for questioning. For without…
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History never looks like history when you are living through it.
— John W. Gardner
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Every play I write is about love and distance. And time. And from that we can get things like history.
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Insecure In her skin Like a puppet, a girl on a string Broke away Learned to fly If you want her back,…
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