All Quotes By Tag: Excellence
“Begin to convert your time into knowledge and wisdom”
“The man that fights for every minute of his day is the wisest and freest of all men”
“The heart of wisdom is the heart that numbers or counts every minute”
“If you convert your time into training, you will be wise”
“A wise man is the one that is preoccupied with fighting for every minute or second of his life”
“If you fight to retain ownership of your time, then you are wise”
“You need to come to a place of maturity and realization that you are only free and wise when you begin to fight for your time”
“Don’t train to be ordinary; train to be extraordinary. You have to go beyond the ordinary in order to become extraordinary. You must develop a style that works for you.”
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“When you optimize your talents very well, you can pick money from people’s pockets and nobody will ever get the guts to call you a thief.”
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“Good human work honors God’s work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)”
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“Your comfort zone is a place where you keep yourself in a self-illusion and nothing can grow there but your potentiality can grow only when you can think and grow out of that zone.”
“If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
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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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“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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“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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