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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. – Henry Ward Beecher

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You know how people always talk about how vision is the key to entrepreneurship and perseverance and really seeing what other people dont see? We can actually redeem a fair amount of that folk wisdom. – Eric Ries

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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it. – Aristotle

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What is all wisdom save a collection of platitudes? – Norman Douglas

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The current wisdom now is that if the three networks are covering the news the same way the difference is the anchor people. I think that wont be true in the future. – Roone Arledge

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Some men give up their designs when they have almost reached the goal While others, on the contrary, obtain a victory by exerting, at the last moment, more vigorous efforts than ever before. – Herodotus

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