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Striving for Accuracy

Desiring exactness, fidelity, perfection, elegance and craftsmanship. Check it again!

A problem is your chance to do your best.
Duke Ellington
Achievement is largely the product of steadily raising one's level of aspiration.
Jack Nicklaus
I've always tried to go a step past wherever other people expected me to end up.
Beverly Sills
The difference between failure and success is doing a thing nearly right and doing a thing exactly right.
Edward Simmons
There is a passion for perfection which you rarely see fully developed but . . . in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
Bliss Carmen
Skill and confidence are an unconquered army.
George Hebert
Other people may not have had high expectations for me...but I had high expectations for myself.
Shannon Miller, Olympic Gymnast
He who stops being better stops being good.
Oliver Cromwell
You go back to the gym and you just do it again and again until you get it right.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
We aim above the mark to hit the mark.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have to do the best we can. This is our sacred human responsibility.
Albert Einstein
Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
Henry Ford
If you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it; every arrow that flies feels the attraction of earth.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker
Any man can make mistakes, but only an idiot persists in his error.
Cicero
Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet Braiker
Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.
Salvador Dali
Be true to the best you know.This is your high ideal. If you do your best, you cannot do more.
Jean Paul Richter, German Novelist
To give anything less than your best is to sacrifice the gift.
Steve Prefontaine
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
There is only one real failure in life that is possible, and that is, not to be true to the best one knows.
John Farrar
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The roots of true achievement lie in the will to become the best that you can become.
Harold Taylor
Commit yourself to quality from day one ... it's better to do nothing at all than to something badly.
Mark McCormack
Accuracy of observation is the equivalent of accuracy of thinking.
Wallace Stevens
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