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excellent-work excellence lines
A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work. Tom Peters
excellent-work enemy wish
The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks, and therefore achieve nothing and leave everything unfinished. Sometimes he even suggests the wish to undertake some excellent work that he foresees we will never accomplish. This is to distract us from the prosecution of some less excellent work that we would have easily completed. He does not care how many plans and beginnings we make, provided nothing is finished. Saint Francis de Sales
enemy interest permanent
There are no permanent friends or permanent enemies, just permanent interests. Carol Moseley Braun
enemy said guides
You all know," said the Guide, "that security is mortals' greatest enemy. C. S. Lewis
enemy pressure ordinary
Remember, he is not, like you, a pure spirit. Never having been a human (Oh that abominable advantage of the Enemy's) you don't realize how enslaved they are to the pressure of the ordinary. C. S. Lewis
enemy territory world
Enemy-occupied territory - that is what this world is. C. S. Lewis
enemy thank-god dies
Friends die one by one, but so, thank God, do enemies. Agnes de Mille
enemy i-can my-friends
I can be on guard against my enemies, but God deliver me from my friends! Charlotte Bronte
enemy may weapons
It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy. Charles de Lint
enemy interesting-characters fellows
Yes. He is quite a good fellow - nobody's enemy but his own. Charles Dickens
enemy want ifs
If you want enemies, excel others; if you want friends, let others excel you. Charles Caleb Colton
wish gum enough
By gum,' said Digory, 'Don't I just wish I was big enough to punch your head! C. S. Lewis
wish invisible
And there we all were, as invisible as you could wish to see. C. S. Lewis
wish leisure wit
if anyone present wishes to make me the subject of his wit, I am very much at his service--with my sword--whenever he has leisure. C. S. Lewis
wish use type
I wish I were the type who could walk into a place and have everybody love me. But I'm not, and there's no use wishing Alan Ladd
wish looks too-much
One must not look inward too much, while the inside is yet tender. I do not wish to frighten myself until I can stand it. Djuna Barnes
wish language british
I definitely wish to distinguish American poetry from British or other English language poetry. Diane Wakoski
wish world back-again
Wish I could spin my world into reverse just to have you back again David Guetta
wish genius taste
There seems almost a general wish of descrying the capacity and undervaluing the labour of the novelist, and of slighting the performances which have only genius, wit, and taste to recommend them. Jane Austen
wish shy natural
I never wish to offend, but I am so foolishly shy, that I often seem negligent, when I am only kept back by my natural awkwardness." -Edward Ferrars Jane Austen