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Colin Powell
: The healthiest competition occurs when average people win by putting above average effort.
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The average is that which no person quite ever is.
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I consider myself an average man, except in the fact that I consider myself an average man.
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I am only an average man but, by George, I work harder at it than the average man.
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If your batting average is high enough, the Big League will find you.
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Remember: the average is as close to the bottom as it is to the top.
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When you're average, you're just as close to the bottom as you are the top.
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Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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Ada Teixeira :
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If your efforts are sometimes greeted with indifference, don't lose heart. The sun puts on a wonderful show at daybreak, yet most of the people in the audience go on sleeping.
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Perpetual optimism is a force multiplier.
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There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
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Experts often possess more data than judgment.
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"If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude."
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"Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off."
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"Leadership is the art of accomplishing more than the science of management says is possible."
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Either move or be moved.
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"I'm sleeping like a baby, too. Every two hours, I wake up, screaming." (Upon hearing that President Bush was "sleeping like a baby" on the eve of war with Iraq.) [7]
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In September 2005, Powell was asked about the Security Council speech during an interview with Barbara Walters and responded that it was a "blot" on his record. He went on to say, "it will always be a part of my record. It was painful. It's painful now." [2]
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