{"id":456,"date":"2011-03-04T19:44:47","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:44:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lornemitchell.com\/blog\/?p=456"},"modified":"2011-03-04T19:47:53","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T18:47:53","slug":"what-is-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.lornemitchell.com\/?p=456","title":{"rendered":"What is &#8220;Best&#8221;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the debate about what &#8220;best&#8221; looks like as in &#8220;The UK will have the best broadband in Europe by 2015&#8221;, I looked up some famous quotations on &#8220;best&#8221;:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They must be felt within the heart.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Helen Keller<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Dale Carnegie<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;The government is best which governs least.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Thomas Jefferson<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;It is no use saying, &#8216;We are doing our best.&#8217; You have got to succeed in doing what is necessary.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Sir Winston Churchill<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;One of the best ways of avoiding necessary and even urgent tasks is to seem to be busily employed on things that are already done.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>John Kenneth Galbraith<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;The only real failure in life is not to be true to the best one knows.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211;\u00a0<strong>Buddha<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\"><span style=\"color: #00ff00;\">&#8220;Sometimes the best gain is to lose.&#8221;<\/span><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">&#8211; <\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: medium;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">George Herbert<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<address><span style=\"font-size: medium; font-style: normal;\"><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">With thanks to:<\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: georgia, geneva; font-size: medium; font-style: normal;\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.smallbusinessnotes.com\/small-business-resources\/quotations-containing-the-word-best.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.smallbusinessnotes.com\/small-business-resources\/quotations-containing-the-word-best.html<\/a><\/span><\/address>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the debate about what &#8220;best&#8221; looks like as in &#8220;The UK will have the best broadband in Europe by 2015&#8221;, I looked up some famous quotations on &#8220;best&#8221;: &#8220;The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. 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