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• We auditioned a lot of great drummers; every one of them was world class. We had a lot of fun playing with each of them and had some great jams. With Mike [Mangini] it was just something really special about what was going on.

  John Petrucci

  Fun, Class, Special

  Source: myglobalmind.com

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• You're not going to tell me that you're going to find a person who's not a very good athlete and he or she is going to be a great player. But anyone can play the game. That's the nice thing about the game. You don't really have to be a world-class athlete to play the sport [golf] and have fun because of handicap systems.

  Jack Nicklaus

  Sports, Fun, Nice

  Source: www.nicklaus.com

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• I started playing the acoustic guitar for more singer-songwriter type stuff. I bet if I would have gotten more approval for my "rock playing", I might be a world class shredder.

  Jill Sobule

  Rocks, Guitar, Class

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Earning success is hard. The process is laborious, tedious, sometimes even boring. Becoming wealthy, influential, and world-class in your field is slow and arduous.

  Darren Hardy

  Class, World, Earning

  Darren Hardy (2011). “The Compound Effect”, p.17, Hachette UK

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• In the past people would say, "I can only do this world-class snowboarding if I have a helicopter." Actually, if you're committed to it, willing to put a bunch of energy into it, then you can do it under your own power.

  Jeremy Jones

  Past, Snowboarding, Class

  "Jeremy Jones and Protect Our Winters". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• The other girls [in team] have experience. They've been competing on a lot of international world-class stages. They knew what to expect and what to do and what not to do. Me and Aly [Raisman] just gave them advice on the media side. We said, it's gonna be crazy. It's the Olympics. But it's gonna be fun!

  Gabby Douglas

  Girl, Fun, Team

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence. In the case of Harvard University, it was true that by the time of its tercentenary (300th anniversary of its founding) in 1936, Harvard had already achieved a reputation as a world-class institution. Harvard did not have the stature that it does today.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Class, Excellence, World

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• To become a world-class university takes a lot of time. There are simply no shortcuts. People tend to assume, and I have encountered this sort of thinking all over the world, that if they just sink enough money into a university, it will emerge in a few years as a first-class institution. But such rapid growth never happens. It takes time; it takes generations.

  Henry Rosovsky

  Thinking, Years, Class

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• You've got more potential than you could use in a thousand lifetimes, I see world class potential in you? But one of the secrets, is you're as good as the best ? you don't have to be better than the rest.

  Denis Waitley

  Class, Secret, Use

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• As far as population size goes, big is no longer important, and it can even be a drawback. In fact, the future belongs more to second-tier cities. Any place can become a world-class center today by finding an area in which it outperforms others, by thinking for the long term, by expanding its competitive abilities and by operating globally.

  Charles Landry

  Thinking, Class, Cities

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Did a sense of shame ever reside in our Republican toadies? You can't stop people who are never embarrassed by themselves. Will's readiness to turn a sow's ear into a silk purse can be cited as world class sycophancy.

  Norman Mailer

  Class, People, History

  "In the Ring" by Norman Mailer, www.newyorker.com. October 6, 2008.

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• You have different levels of players. There's are Premier League, international and world-class levels. The world-class level is players at the peak of their career and there's only maybe 50 maximum in the whole world. Stevie moved from a Premier League player to an international player and then world class.

  Gerard Houllier

  Player, Class, Careers

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• Ten thousand hours is equivalent to roughly three hours a day, or 20 hours a week, of practice over 10 years... No one has yet found a case in which true world-class expertise was accomplished in less time. It seems that it takes the brain this long to assimilate all that it needs to know to achieve true mastery.

  Daniel Levitin

  Years, Practice, Class

  "Malcolm Gladwell on Joy, Gates and the Beatles and on stage" by Jack Schofield, www.theguardian.com. November 16, 2008.

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• I have great respect for Jaypee Greens as a company that has produced a truly world class, 24-carat, championship golf course. I am happy to be associated with a company with such outstanding qualities.

  Kapil Dev

  Golf, Class, Quality

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• Tulsa has world-class opera and Starbucks, and a religious conservatism that rules public life.

  Anne Hull

  Religious, Class, Tulsa

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• Quality training is what I do now; before it was a combination of both quality and quantity. Now I'm not trying to be a world-class athlete, I don't need to train at that level. It's about being fit, fit for life.

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee

  Athlete, Class, Training

  "Five minutes with Olympic gold medalist Jackie Joyner-Kersee". Chicago Tribune Interview, www.chicagotribune.com. April 25, 2012.

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• There is no single field of activity, not a single institution, free of the most brutal sort of corruption. Russia has bred a world-class mafia.

  David Remnick

  Russia, Class, Mafia

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• Scotland consistently produces world-class writers.

  Sara Sheridan

  Class, Scotland, World

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• First of all, I'm not pretty. I'm not a world class beauty, ladies and gentlemen. I'm just a guy. I was slow going and stuff like that. I was just never that brand of news.

  Halle Berry

  Class, Guy, Gentleman

  "Tom Hanks, Halle Berry Interview Cloud Atlas". "MoviesOnline" Interview, www.moviesonline.ca. October 18, 2017.

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• Even world class performers can benefit from walk breaks.

  Jeff Galloway

  Class, Benefits, World

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• In order to be a world-class expert in anything, be it audiology, drama, music, art, gymnastics, whatever, one needs to have a minimum of 10,000 hours of practice. Unfortunately, it doesn't mean that if you put in 10,000 hours that you will become an expert, but there aren't any cases where someone has achieved world-class mastery without it! So the time spent at the activity is indeed the most important and influential factor.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Drama, Mean

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• A great pinot chases its own tail. You drink it and you just keep finding new tastes that go with it. My dream was to make a world-class pinot and learn more about other wines as well.

  Kurt Russell

  Dream, Wine, Class

  "How Kurt Russell turned into a 'pinot poodle'". www.foxnews.com. March 20, 2015.

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• British innovation in design, in the creative arts, in engineering and manufacturing is world class.

  Margaret Heffernan

  Art, Class, Engineering

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• Mischief nodded. 'It's true,' he conceded. 'You're in the company of eight world-class thieves,' he said, not without a little touch of pride. 'Saints we are not.' But then,' said Deaux-Deaux, 'who is?' he thought on this. 'Besides saints.

  Clive Barker

  Pride, Eight, Class

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• The vast majority of Airmen we train are going to be somewhere in harm's way within the next year or two. It is up to us to impart to them the talent and skill they need to accomplish their mission in a world-class fashion and at the same time make sure we get them back safely to the families that love them.

  William R. Looney III

  Fashion, Military, Years

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