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«The creative urge is the demon that will not accept anything second rate.»
«There is more credit and satisfaction in being a first-rate truck driver than a tenth-rate executive.»
«The bad teacher imposes his ideas and his methods on his pupils, and such originality as they may have is lost in the second-rate art of imitation.»
«Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.»
«Some who have read the book, or at any rate have reviewed it, have found it boring, absurd, or contemptible; and I have no cause to complain, since I have similar opinions of their works, or of the kinds of writing that they evidently prefer.»
Author: J.R.R. Tolkien
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«Strange that the vanity which accompanies beauty - excusable, perhaps, when there is such great beauty, or at any rate understandable -should persist after the beauty was gone.»
«The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of 60 minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.»
Author: C.S. Lewis
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«On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.»
Author: Chuck Palahniuk
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Journalist,
Novelist,
Satirist)
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Death,
Survival
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«The best way will be to avoid each other without appearing to do so -- or if we jostle, at any rate not to bite.»
«My illusions didn't have anything to do with being a fine actress, I knew how third rate I was. I could actually feel my lack of talent, as if it were cheap clothes I was wearing inside. But, my God, how I wanted to learn, to change, to improve!»