Excellence Quotes - Page 19

• Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

  John Dryden

  Leaving, Criticism, Littles

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.424

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• Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Spring, Mean, Roots

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

  Dogen

  Self, Practice, Ultimate

  "Things Overheard at the Treasury of the Eye of the True Dharma". Book by Dogen translated by Reiho Masunaga, June 1975.

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• Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

  Plato

  Country, Blow, Men

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

  Demosthenes

  Men, May, Persistent

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• I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

  Washington Allston

  Believe, Men, Shadow

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.174

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• If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Delight, Sake

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.

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• Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.

  Henry Parry Liddon

  Envy, Soul, Unhappy

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, World, Gaps

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

  William J. Clinton

  Levels, Demand, Graduation Day

  Clinton, William J. (1997). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1995”, p.1411, Best Books on

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• Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Men, Eagles

  Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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• Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

  Nonie Darwish

  Blessed, Dedication, Self

  Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem, 2007.

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• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  Xenocrates

  Possession, Subservient

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• The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Religion, May, Morality

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• I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

  Robert Lyn Nelson

  Lasts, Next, Painting

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• Education, they [philosophers] felt, is the only answer to the always pressing question, to the political question par excellence, of how to reconcile order which is not oppression with freedom which is not license.

  Leo Strauss

  Order, Political, Answers

  Leo Strauss (2013). “Persecution and the Art of Writing”, p.37, University of Chicago Press

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• Barack the boy was raised by his white maternal grandparents; his Kenyan father abandoned him. The qualities Americans appeared to find universally appealing in the ambitious, affable Obama - his confidence and calm, and his commitment to community and kin, education and excellence - these came from Kansas, not Kenya.

  Ilana Mercer

  Father, Commitment, Boys

  "The Big Lie about Obama and Race". www.wnd.com. January 23, 2009.

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• One must live in the middle of contradiction, because if all contradiction were eliminated at once, life would collapse. There are simply no definitive answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light.

  Barry Lopez

  Light, Expression, Answers

  "In 'Sliver Of Sky,' Barry Lopez Confronts Childhood Sexual Abuse". 'Fresh Air' with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. January 10, 2013.

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• Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

  Robin Sharma

  Effectiveness, Innovation, Titles

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• It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

  Tom Osborne

  Integrity, Vision, Important

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• The lesbian is the archtypical feminist, because she's not into men - she's the independent woman par excellence.

  Kate Millett

  Sex, Independent, Men

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• The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

  John H. Sununu

  Education, Incentives, Financial

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• It seems to me now that mathematics is capable of an artistic excellence as great as that of any music, perhaps greater; not because the pleasure it gives (although very pure) is comparable, either in intensity or in the number of people who feel it, to that of music, but because it gives in absolute perfection that combination, characteristic of great art, of godlike freedom, with the sense of inevitable destiny; because, in fact, it constructs an ideal world where everything is perfect and yet true.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Destiny, Numbers

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.162, Routledge

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• People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day.

  Jennifer Westfeldt

  Hard Work, People, Theatre

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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