Being a good teacher takes patience; being a good doctor also takes patience. In fact, if you want to excel in anything, master any skill, patience is an asset.

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"Love grows by practice; there is no other way."

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"Patience can’t be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it."

- Eknath Easwaran

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"And it is the mind that can learn to stay calm, resourceful, compassionate, and effective. Everything depends on our state of mind – the one thing in life we can do something about."

- Eknath Easwaran

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"The meeting of preparation with opportunity generates the offspring we call luck."

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"There are no shortcuts to any place worth going."

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"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, therefore, is not an act but a habit."

- Aristotle

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"I attribute my success to this: I never gave or took any excuse."

- Florence Nightingale

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"Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection, we can catch excellence."

- Vince Lombardi

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