Excellence is not an event but a habit.

Debasish Mridha
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A long time ago, the Olympic Games were held in Greece. At this event, a new word was coined: “Olympic.” It is said that the Greeks used the term to describe excellence. The Greeks believed that excellence was not an event but rather a way of life. They valued it as a habit and not as something they achieved on one day.

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