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A man named Bill once visited a temple that was still being. He saw a sculptor (雕刻家) making a sculpture (雕塑). As he watched the man work on the sculpture, he noticed that there was a similar sculpturenearby.
He felt strange and asked the sculptor, "Why are you creating two same sculptures? 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) before 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 anything 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 (平台) which is 20 feet in height. "If the sculpture is up that high, who is going to notice that there is a scratch on the nose?" Bill asked
The sculptor stopped his work, looking up at the man and said, "I will know it."
The sculptora high level of excellence in his work. Heto work or the new one. Even if other people didn't notice it, it mattered to him that his work should be thequality (质量). This is an attitude we should work hard to have.
