"If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun."

-- Robert Townsend

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“The hardest arithmetic to master is that which enables us to count our blessings.”

Source : "Reflections on the Human Condition" by Eric Hoffer, (Section 172), 1973.
“The young women of today, free to study, to speak, to write, to choose their occupation, should remember that every inch of this freedom was bought for them at a great price. It is for them to show their gratitude by helping onward the reforms of their own times, by spreading the light of freedom and of truth still wider. The debt that each generation owes to the past it must pay to the future.”

Source : "Westward the Women". Book by Nancy Wilson Ross, Mar 15, 2016.
“Explicit knowledge, conventionally delivered like pizza (neat boxes with toppings of concepts, theories, best practices and war stories), is consumed by the brain but not metabolized into action. The learning we call intuition, know-how and common sense gets into the blood stream through osmosis. It is shaped by social context.”

Source : Richard T. Pascale, Jerry Sternin, Monique Sternin (2010). “The Power of Positive Deviance: How Unlikely Innovators Solve the World's Toughest Problems”, p.146, Harvard Business Press
“In the quiet hours, in the heat of battle, and through the hazards of the day; in times of temptation, of sorrow, of peace and of blessing, let us pray always, both alone, and with our families gathered around us, with gratitude for the blessings of life, for understanding of its problems, and for strength to endure to the end.”
“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”

Source : Harold Bloom (2001). “How to Read and Why”, p.79, Simon and Schuster
“I learned basic cookery from my mom, taught myself cake techniques and then got fed up with my own cakes not looking as good as the ones in the shops.”
“If you don't quit, and don't cheat, and don't run home when trouble arrives, you can only win.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I'm so happy, I can hardly spit.”

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