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People underestimate the importance of dilligence as a virtue. No doubt it has something to do with how supremely mundane it seems. It is defined as "the constant and earnest effort to accomplish what is undertaken."... Understood, however, as the prerequisite of great accomplishment, diligence stands as one of the most difficult challenges facing any group of people who take on tasks of risk and consequence. It sets a high, seemingly impossible, expectation for performance and human behavior. ↗

— Atul Gawande

#inspirational #medicine #student-accountability #attitude

If we do the work that we can do in this country, the work that we will do when John Kerry is President, people like Christopher Reeve will get up out of that wheelchair and walk again. ↗

— John Edwards

#christopher #christopher reeve #country #get #john

The facts are the vice president's company that he was CEO of, that did business with sworn enemies of the United States, paid millions of dollars in fines for providing false financial information, it's under investigation for bribing foreign officials. ↗

— John Edwards

#ceo #company #did #dollars #facts

So this is the space during tutoring hours. It's very busy. Same principles: one-on-one attention, complete devotion to the students' work and a boundless optimism and sort of a possibility of creativity and ideas. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#boundless #busy #complete #creativity #devotion

People tend to judge presidents on how the economy performs, and yet we don't expect them to have the power to do much about it. Or we don't want them to exercise that power, if they were to have it. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#economy #exercise #expect #how #judge

The fear of death is the most unjustified of all fears, for there's no risk of accident for someone who's dead. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#accident #dead #fear #fears #most

Any man who wants to be president is either an egomaniac or crazy. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#crazy #egomaniac #either #man #president

Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat, and I learned something more, the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#became #columbia #columbia university #drop #expected

I don't find any presidents all that sexy. They're not very rock'n'roll. ↗

— Carmen Electra

#find #i #presidents #rock #roll

I think that there's a lot more freedom in the low budget, the independent films where, unfortunately, you don't have the money, necessarily, to get the orchestras in there to play a lot of stuff. But, you have a lot more freedom, very often. ↗

— Danny Elfman

#films #freedom #get #i #i think