"Adequacy is the enemy of excellence."

-- Peter Drucker

#Excellence Quotes #Enemy Quotes #Adequacy Quotes

“In such a fast-paced world, gathering people around a table to share a meal allows everything to slow down. I would ask people to sit at least once a week around a table and just enjoy each other's company. Give them the time to talk, laugh, and fill their bellies. It seems like a small thing, but it can bring so much joy to so many people.”
“I can normally tell how intelligent a man is by how stupid he thinks I am.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2010). “All the Pretty Horses”, p.197, Pan Macmillan
“Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing patches of stratus that lay in the valleys as heavy and white as glaciers. North for the first time. It was still an adventure, as exciting as love, as frightening.”
“Israel of the coastal plain, where eight out of ten Israeli Jews live far removed from the occupied territories, from the fiery Jerusalem, from the religious and nationalistic conflicts, is unknown to the outside world, almost unknown to itself.”
“The quintessential expression of coffee is espresso.”
“The single biggest change in middle-distance running, from the 1500 metres to 10,000 metres, has been the track surface.”
“The Lord wants us to be filled with hope-not just because it points us to a brighter tomorrow, but because it changes the quality of our lives.”
“Reading is the way out of ignorance, and the road to achievement.”

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