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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.»
Author: B. C. Forbes
(Editor, Founder)
| Keywords:
credit, driver, executive, first rate, rate, tenth, truck, trucks, truck driver
«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.»
Author: Stephen Neill
| About:
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
Bad art, imitation, imposes, methods, originality, pupils, rate, second rate
«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.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| Keywords:
boss, demoralize, demoralized, demoralizing, exorbitant, live up to, rate, second rate, standards, tolerates
«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.»
«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.»
Author: Aristotle
(Philosopher, Physician, Scientist)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
accompanies, excusable, persist, rate, understandable, vanity
«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
(Novelist, Scholar)
| Keywords:
by the hour, future, hour, minutes, out of reach, rate, rating, reaches, reach into, The future
«On a large enough time line, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero.»
«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!»
Author: Marilyn Monroe
(Actress)
| About:
Actors and acting,
Learning,
Talent
| Keywords:
actress, cheap, illusions, rate, The Actress, third rate, wearing
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