The Degrees of Greatness

"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
Eleanor Roosevelt

"Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different."
T.S. Eliot

"Bad Designers Copy. Average Designers Imitate. Great Designers Steal."
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Albert Roux, one half of the Roux Brothers and one of the world’s greatest chefs, once told me that “bad chefs count the days they worked, decent chefs count the plates they sold, but great chefs count the smiles they put on faces.”
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