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A man named Bill once visited a temple that was still being built. He saw a sculptor(雕刻家) a sculpture. As he watched the man work on the sculpture, he noticed that there was a similar sculpture lying nearby.
He felt strange and asked the sculptor, "Why are you creating twosculptures? Do you need two to put in different?"
"No." the man said without looking up, "We need only one, but the first one became damaged(损害) I could finish it, so I'm working on a new one."
Bill picked up the damaged sculpture and examined it. But he couldn't find wrong with it．
"Where is the damage?" he asked.
"There is a scratch(划痕) on the sculpture's nose." the sculptor said whilehis work.
Bill then asked, "Where are you going to place the sculpture?"
The sculptor replied that it would be placed on a platform which is 20 feet in height. "If the sculpture is up that high,is going to notice that there is a scratch on the nose?" Bill asked.
The sculptorhis work, looking up at the man and said, "I will know it."
The sculptor chose a high standard of excellence in his work. Even if other people didn't notice it, it mattered to him that his work should be of thequality(质量). This is an attitude we should work hard to have.
