"There is nothing in all the world so satisfying as a task well done. There is no reward so pleasing as that which comes with the mastery of a difficult problem." Gordon B. Hinckley

"Slumps are like a soft bed. They're easy to get into and hard to get out of." Johnny Bench

"Great works are done when one is not calculating and thinking." Daisetz T. Suzuki

"You have to perform at a consistently higher level than others. That's the mark of a true professional." Joe Paterno

"A total commitment is paramount to reaching the ultimate in performance." Tim Flores - NFL coach

"Apply yourself. Get all the education you can, but then, by God, do something. Don't just stand there, make something happen." Lee Iacocca

"My motto was always to keep swinging. Whether I was in a slump or feeling badly or having trouble off the field, the only thing to do was keep swinging." Hank Aaron

"The important thing is to dare to dream big, and then take action to make it come true." Joe Girard

"Don't waste life in doubts and fears; spend yourself on the work before you, well assured that the right performance of this hour's duties will be the best preparation for the hours or ages that follow it." Ralph Waldo Emerson

"An acre of performance is worth a whole world of promise." William Dean Howells

"It is our individual performances, no matter how humble our place in life may be, that will in the long run determine how well ordered the world may become." Paul C. Packer

"Be fanatics. When it comes to being and doing and dreaming the best, be maniacs." A.M. Rosenthal

"The man who does not take pride in his own performance performs nothing in which to take pride." Thomas J. Watson

"You are not here merely to make a living. You are here in order to enable the world to live more amply, with greater vision, with a finer spirit of hope and achievement. You are here to enrich the world, and you impoverish yourself if you forget the errand." Woodrow Wilson

"You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done." Charles Yeager

"What we think or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only thing of consequence is what we do." John Ruskin

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