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«The self-confidence of the warrior is not the self-confidence of the average man. The average man seeks certainty in the eyes of the onlooker and calls that self-confidence. The warrior seeks impeccability in his own eyes and calls that humbleness. The average man is hooked to his fellow men, while the warrior is hooked only to infinity.»
«?To be a warrior is not a simple matter of wishing to be one. It is rather an endless struggle that will go on to the very last moment of our lives. Nobody is born a warrior, in exactly the same way that nobody is born an average man. We make ourselves into one or the other.?»
«If you know what you are going to write when you're writing a poem, it's going to be average»
Author: Derek Walcott | About: Writing | Keywords: average, poem
«Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people»
«According to most studies, people's number one fear is public speaking. Number two is death. Death is number two. Does that sound right? This means to the average person, if you go to a funeral, you're better off in the casket than doing the eulogy.»
«Good leadership consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.»
«Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.»
«Does there, I wonder, exist a being who has read all, or approximately all, that the person of average culture is supposed to have read, and that not to have read is a social sin? If such a being does exist, surely he is an old, a very old man.»
«?A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.?»
«Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.»

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