#substitute

Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. ↗

— Aesop

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We can believe that we know where the world should go. But unless we're in touch with our customers, our model of the world can diverge from reality. There's no substitute for innovation, of course, but innovation is no substitute for being in touch, either. ↗

— Steve Ballmer

#believe #course #customers #either #go

No poet will ever take the written word as a substitute for the spoken word; he knows that it is on the spoken word, and the spoken word only, that his art is founded. ↗

— Lascelles Abercrombie

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To try to write a grand cosmical drama leads necessarily to myth. To try to let knowledge substitute ignorance in increasingly larger regions of space and time is science. ↗

— Hannes Alfven

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Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work. I had to put in the time to get back. And it was a grind. It meant training and sweating every day. But I was completely committed to working out to prove to myself that I still could do it. ↗

— Andre Agassi

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However successful you are, there is no substitute for a close relationship. We all need them. ↗

— Francesca Annis

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I think that my biggest attribute to any success that I have had is hard work. There really is no substitute for working hard. ↗

— Maria Bartiromo

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The greatest felony in the news business today is to be behind, or to miss a big story. So speed and quantity substitute for thoroughness and quality, for accuracy and context. ↗

— Carl Bernstein

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There's no substitute for guts. ↗

— Paul Bryant

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Organisation can never be a substitute for initiative and for judgement. ↗

— Louis D. Brandeis

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