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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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I feel incredibly awkward as a human being and incredibly teenaged still. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

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Great artists suffer for the people. ↗

— Marvin Gaye

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The ultimate goal of the educational system is to shift to the individual the burden of pursing his own education. This will not be a widely shared pursuit until we get over our odd conviction that education is what goes on in school buildings and nowhere else. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

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In secondary school I was floating - I wasn't passionate about anything. I did a little sport, but it was pretty joyless because the competitiveness was too much to bear. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

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My parents signed me up for classical guitar lessons, which made for two years of the most depressing Wednesday evenings. ↗

— Andrew Garfield

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