Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work. – Thomas Edison
Talent hits a target no one else can hit; Genius hits a target no one else can see. – Arthur Schopenhauer
Ability is what you’re capable of doing. Motivation determines what you do. Attitude determines how well you do it. – Lou Holtz
Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything. – George Lois
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece. – John Ruskin
Originality is not seen in single words or even sentences. Originality is the sum total of a man’s thinking or his writing. – Issac Bashevis Singer
Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected. – Steve Jobs
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word – excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. – Pearl Buck
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life’s work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence. – Orison Swett Marden
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