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• If there's one thing I've learned, it's this: We all want everything to be okay. We don't even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.

  David Levithan

  Wish, Want, I've Learned

  David Levithan (2013). “Every Day”, p.10, Egmont UK

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• One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men. No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Strength

  A Thousand and One Epigrams (1911)

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• To be an outstanding musician, you have to be very attentive to the smallest detail and willing to have infinite patience in the pursuit of your ideal. You require absolute control and professionalism.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Musician, Details, Professionalism

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• The most outstanding manifestation of negative growth in the spiritual, mental and physical health of the human race through eons of evolution is the pride of place that has been given to Guilt.

  Zeina

  Spiritual, Pride, Race

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• I don't want a lot of good investments; I want a few outstanding ones.

  John Neff

  Investing, Want, Investment

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• Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.

  Brian Tracy

  Leader, Belief, Missions

  Brian Tracy (2008). “Effective Leadership”, p.13, Jaico Publishing House

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• Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

  Roger McDonald

  Inspirational, People, Effort

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• Outstanding long-term results are produced primarily by avoiding dumb decisions, rather than by making brilliant ones.

  Warren Buffett

  Long, Decision, Dumb

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• The outstanding event was the doing which I am still at. Don't pickle me awayas done.

  Emily Carr

  Events, Done, Pickles

  c.1940 Quoted in Ira Dilworth's foreword to Klee Wyck (1951edn).

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• I swear it upon Zeus an outstanding runner cannot be the equal of an average wrestler.

  Socrates

  Sports, Wrestling, Average

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• There is no such thing as not worshipping. Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship. And an outstanding reason for choosing some sort of God or spiritual-type thing to worship - be it J.C. or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan mother-goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some infrangible set of ethical principles - is that pretty much anything else you worship will eat you alive.

  David Foster Wallace

  Mother, Spiritual, Ethical Principles

  "'Plain Old Untrendy Troubles and Emotions'". www.theguardian.com. September 19, 2008.

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• Getting service right is more than just a nice to do; it's a must do. American consumers are willing to spend more with companies that provide outstanding service - ultimately, great service can drive sales and customer loyalty.

  Jim Bush

  Loyalty, Nice, Educational

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• The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Freedom, Islamic, Race

  Arnold J. Toynbee (1949). “Civilization on Trial”

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• Anecdotally his fitness reports rated him well above average in the classroom, excellent in the field, fluently bilingual in English and French, passable in Spanish, outstanding on all man-portable weaponry, and beyond outstanding at hand-to-hand combat. Susan knew what that last rating meant. Like having a running chainsaw thrown at you

  Lee Child

  Running, Men, Average

  Lee Child (2015). “The Essential Jack Reacher, Volume 2, 6-Book Bundle: 61 Hours, Worth Dying For, The Affair, A Wanted Man, Never Go Back, Personal”, p.175, Delacorte Press

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• We can and should place special emphasis on developing in our youth constructive incentives — a love of science, engineering, and math, so that they will want to take advanced scientific courses and thereby help meet the needs of our times.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Math, Technology, Engineering

  "The Teachings of Ezra Taft Benson".

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• He gave her his phone number, in a peculiar reversal of dating procedure. She might have considered kissing him, even after the horrible first date, but he just didn’t seem to know what to do. However, Jeremy does have one outstanding quality. He likes her. And this quality in a person makes them infinitely interesting to the person who is being liked.

  Steve Martin

  Kissing, Phones, Numbers

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• "Give us this day our daily bread," by "this day" we mean "at this time," when we either ask for that sufficiency, signifying the whole of our need under the name of bread, which is the outstanding part of it, or for the sacrament of the faithful, which is necessary at this time for attaining not so much this temporal as that eternal happiness.

  Saint Augustine

  Mean, Names, Giving

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• The House Rules Committee is perhaps the free world's outstanding bureaucratic abomination - a tiny, airless closet deep in the labyrinth of the Capitol where some of the very meanest people on earth spend their days cleaning democracy like a fish.

  Matt Taibbi

  People, House, Labyrinth

  Matt Taibbi (2007). “Smells Like Dead Elephants: Dispatches from a Rotting Empire”, p.21, Black Cat

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• Gaiety is the most outstanding feature of the Soviet Union.

  Joseph Stalin

  Unions, Soviet Union, Ussr

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• The future continues to preoccupy me as a reliable source of hopes, fears and anxieties, but increasingly the present seems to have no outstanding qualities of its own, being merely a way-station through which events travel to the vast shadow lands of the past.

  Will Self

  Past, Land, Anxiety

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• The royals - all of them, especially Prince Philip and Prince Charles - have done outstanding work with the faith communities.

  Jonathan Sacks

  Community, Done, Royal

  "The Queen’s Multi-faith Society" by Chief Rabbi Lord Sacks, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 31, 2012.

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• Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

  Max Aitken, Lord Beaverbrook

  Quality, Three, Judgment

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• Seek the outstanding mental conflict in the person, give him the remedy that will overcome that conflict and all the hope and encouragement you can, then the virtue within him will, itself do all the rest.

  Edward Bach

  Encouragement, Health, Giving

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• The sole function of education...[is] to open the way to thinking and knowing, and the school, as the outstanding organ for the people's education, must serve that end exclusively.

  Albert Einstein

  Education, Philosophy, School

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Out of My Later Years: The Scientist, Philosopher, and Man Portrayed Through His Own Words”, p.20, Open Road Media

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• I wonder...would you rather have 100 from an average person or 10 from someone who is outstanding

  Kanye West

  Average, Wonder, Persons

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