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Doing Your Best

«I don't care if I was a ditch-digger at a dollar a day, I'd want to do my job better than the fellow next to me. I'd want to be the best at whatever I do.»
«It is important to do what you don't know how to do. It is important to see your skills as keeping you from learning what is deepest and most mysterious. If you know how to focus, unfocus. If your tendency is to make sense out of chaos, start chaos.»
«It's not who i am underneath but what i do that defines me»
«It is not enough to do your best; you must know what to do, and then do your best.»
«In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated to your chosen sport. You must also be prepared to work hard and be willing to accept destructive criticism. Without 100% dedication, you won't be able to do this.»
«I do the very best I know how, the very best I can, and I mean to keep on doing so until the end»
«It is not enough merely to exist. It's not enough to say, 'I'm earning enough to support my family. I do my work well. I'm a good father, husband, churchgoer.' That's all very well. But you must do something more. Seek always to do some good, somewhe»
«It's the price of leadership to do the thing you believe has to be done at the time it must be done»
«I do not think much of a man who is not wiser today than he was yesterday.»
«I come to the office each morning and stay for long hours doing what has to be done to the best of my ability. And when you've done the best you can, you can't do any better.»

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