The Sculptor

This is a little story I came across the other day:

A gentleman saw a sculptor busy sculpting an idol of a deity, near a temple under construction.  And he notices a similar idol nearby. Close by he sees one pedestal on which the deity would sit. He curiously asked.."Why are you making two idols, I see only one pedestal" 

The sculptor said "I need only one, but the first one got damaged when I was just completing it" 

The gentleman went around the finished idol and found no apparent damage. "Where is the damage?" he asked. "There is a scratch on the nose of the idol," said the sculptor, still busy with his work.

"Are you going to install the idol on that twenty foot high pedestal?" inquired the tourist. "Yes" said the sculptor. "What, at such a height, who would ever know there is a scratch" exclaimed the gentleman.

The sculptor stopped his work, looked up at the tourist, smiled and said "I will"

A moral that's nice to hear ......'excellence' is a drive from the inside, not the outside.