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    Mark Twain
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    The difference between the right word and the almost right word, is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

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    Peter Enns
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    Are the early stories in the Old Testament to be judged on the basis of standards of modern historical inquiry and scientific precision, things that ancient peoples were not at all aware of? Is it not...

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    Gregory Boyle
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    Scripture scholars contend that the original language of the Beatitudes should not be rendered as "Blessed are the single-hearted" or "Blessed are the peacemakers" or "Blessed...

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    Richard Sennett
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    Craftsmanship [is] the state of being engaged.

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    James Cameron
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    People call me a perfectionist, but I’m not. I’m a rightist. I do something until it’s right, and then I move on to the next thing.

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    Richard Chase
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    A Christian should constantly seek ... highest standards and employ the most demanding comparisons for [his self-] evaluations.

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    Alexandra Horowitz
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    Attention is an intentional, unapologetic discriminator. It asks what is relevant right now, and gears us up to notice only that.

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    Katherine Morgan Schafler
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    Perfectionists have trouble relating to people who don’t hold a strong impulse towards perfectionism, and vice versa. The more intense your impulse towards something is and the more natural it feels f...

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    Charles Haddon Spurgeon
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    Patience is a grace as difficult as it is necessary, and as hard to come by as it is precious when it is gained.

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    Baruch Spinoza
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    Excellent things are as difficult as they are rare.

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    G. K. Chesterton
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    The rare, strange thing is to hit the mark; the gross, obvious thing is to miss it.

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    Isaac Newton
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    Tact is the art of making a point without making an enemy.

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    John Climacus
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    Just as a tempered metal can sharpen soft or rusty metal, so can a zealous brother set a tepid one on the right track.

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    John Knox
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    Those who have arrived at any very eminent degree of excellence in the practice of an art or profession have commonly been actuated by a species of enthusiasm in their pursuit of it. They have kept on...

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    Steve Jobs
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    Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

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    Arthur Conan Doyle
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    It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important.

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    Michelangelo
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    For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine...

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    François Fénelon
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    It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are, the more gentle and quiet we become toward the defects of others.

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    Louis Pasteur
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    Chance favors the prepared mind.

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    Henry David Thoreau
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    In the long run, you hit only what you aim for.

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    Wilt Chamberlain
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    They say that nobody is perfect. Then they tell you that practice makes perfect. I wish they’d make up their minds.

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    Fulton J. Sheen
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    Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is 'timing' it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.

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    Henry Cloud
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    Pruning is strategic. It is directional and forward-looking. It is intentional toward a vision, desires, and objectives that have been clearly defined and are measurable. If you have that, you know wh...

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    B. B. Warfield
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    Let us, then, cultivate an attitude of courage as over against the investigations of the day. None should be more zealous in them then we. None should be more quick to discern truth in every field, mo...

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    Ernest Larkin
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    Discernment in its fullness takes a practiced heart, fine-tuned to hear the word of God and the single-mindedness to follow that word in love. It is truly a gift from God, but not one dropped from the...

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    Sinclair B. Ferguson
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    True discernment means not only distinguishing the right from the wrong; it means distinguishing the primary from the secondary, the essential from the indifferent, and the permanent from the transien...

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    Kent Annan
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    The defining ingredient of real human life is fidelity. It’s not wealth, power, control, or knowledge. It’s fidelity, the question of practice—how do we maintain fidelity [with God]?

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    Arsene Wenger
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    I believe the target of anything in life should be to do it so well that it becomes an art.

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    John O'Donohue
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    What you encounter, recognize or discover depends to a large degree on the quality of your approach. Many of the ancient cultures practiced careful rituals of approach. An encounter of depth and spiri...

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    Ruth Haley Barton
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    The habit of discernment is a quality of attentiveness to God that is so intimate that over time we develop an intuitive sense of God’s heart and purpose in any given moment.
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