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Jai Ganesh

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Registered: 2005-06-28

Posts: 46,406

Strive for Excellence!!!

I wish to share this mail I got with you all!
Hope you like the message!

A man once visited a temple under construction where he saw a sculptor making an idol of God. Suddenly he noticed a similar idol lying nearby. Surprised, he asked the sculptor, "Do you need two statues of the same idol?" "No," said the sculptor without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one got damaged at the last stage." The gentleman examined the idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol." said the sculptor, still busy with his work. "Where are you going to install the idol?" The sculptor replied that it would be installed on a pillar twenty feet high. "If the idol is that far, who is going to know that there is a scratch on the nose?" the gentleman asked.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the gentleman, smiled and said, "I will know it."

The desire to excel is exclusive of the fact whether someone else appreciates it or not. "Excellence" is a drive from inside, not outside.

Excellence is not for someone else to notice but for your own satisfaction.

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It appears to me that if one wants to make progress in mathematics, one should study the masters and not the pupils. - Niels Henrik Abel.

Nothing is better than reading and gaining more and more knowledge - Stephen William Hawking.

LQ

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Registered: 2006-12-04

Posts: 1,285

Re: Strive for Excellence!!!

Excellence, a common word for that which stands out, and as any word just a mark for a strategy.
any strategy could be endured and strived for. Gods strategy was to put all bad strategy in the same place, which was a very bad strategy, why a god idol would make a very bad strategy and is in no way excellent and I wouldn't be surprised if he had a scratch on his nose. No strategy in particullar would be the best and not all strive for PERFeCT or EXCELLENT or DEEP BLUE. Infact, his excellency made a sword excallibur and cut through the army as if not made from anything, I hope the church you are refering to wont do this cause that would indeed be just that and I wouldn't like it, I wouldn't endure it, and it wouldn't be gods job for god is not his excellency, his excellency is the king or a lord!

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I see clearly now, the universe have the black dots, Thus I am on my way of inventing this remedy...

Tigeree

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Registered: 2005-11-19

Posts: 13,883

Re: Strive for Excellence!!!

So very true! That's very lovely, ganesh I'm glad you shared that with us.

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People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.
~ Anton Chekhov
Cheer up, emo kid.