“The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it.”
About This Quote
From Wikipedia on the source: Attributed without citation in Ken Robinson, The Element (2009), p. 260. Widely attributed to Michelangelo since the late 1990s, this adage has not been found before 1980 when it appeared without attribution in E. C. McKenzie, Mac's giant book of quips & quotes.
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