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• Amid the push to excellence, with its measurement and accountability, it is easy to lose sight of a key ingredient in reading a book - the pleasure it bring us, something too many boil down to a dirty word: FUN.

  Jim Trelease

  Fun, Dirty, Book

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• Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

  Earl Warren

  Inspiration, Justice, Vision

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• Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

  Dave Ramsey

  Next Steps, Ordinary, Next

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• It's not nuclear physics. You always remember that. But if you write about sports long enough, you're constantly coming back to the point that something buoys people; something makes you feel better for having been there. Something of value is at work there...Something is hallowed here. I think that something is excellence.

  Tom Callahan

  Sports, Writing, Feel Better

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• Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

  Jason Calacanis

  People, Today, Excellent

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• What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

  Richard Wilbur

  Pride, Doors, Heaven

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• Creativity is a distinctive trait of human excellence in all domains of behavior.

  Ellis Paul Torrance

  Creativity, Behavior, Domain

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• It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

  Mary McDonnell

  Jobs, Comfort, Wonderful

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• For all fragrances I create, I ask each of my suppliers to deliver and provide the best raw materials. It is my personal quest for excellence and quality to create luxury perfumes.

  Francis Kurkdjian

  Luxury, Quality, Raw Materials

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• I always tell the kids that excellence is like pregnancy. You can't be a little bit pregnant. You either are or you're not.

  Rafe Esquith

  Pregnancy, Kids, Littles

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Parents have to understand, that even if their child isn't showing athletic excellence in a certain sport, they still need to be involved. They don't need to be involved in a military type of setting, they just need to get out and play and enjoy themselves and find it themselves.

  Allyson Felix

  Sports, Children, Military

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.

  Peter Capaldi

  Mean, Thinking, Together

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Order, Use

  Henry David Thoreau (1993). “Civil Disobedience, and Other Essays”, p.67, Courier Corporation

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• Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Men, Honor, Desire

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• Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

  Mike Huckabee

  Race, Competition, Gop

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• Every man is prompted by the love of himself to imagine that he possesses some qualities, superior, either in kind or degree, to those which he sees allotted to the rest of the world; and, whatever apparent disadvantages he may suffer in the comparison with others, he has some invisible distinctions, some latent reserve of excellence, which he throws into the balance, and by which he generally fancies that it is turned in his favour.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Suffering, Quality

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.178, Harvard University Press

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• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  Stephen Fry

  Art, School, Winning

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• Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

  Robert Kennedy

  Long, Community, Too Much

  Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt

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• Do your best at every job. Don't sleep! Success generates more success so be hungry for it. Hire good people with a passion for excellence.

  Steve Jobs

  Jobs, Passion, Sleep

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• You have to be uncompromised in your level of commitment to whatever you are doing, or it can disappear as fast as it appeared...  Excellence isn't a one-week or one-year ideal.  It's a constant. There will be days when you don't feel on top of your game, or meetings in which you aren't at your best, but your commitment remains constant. No compromises.

  Michael Jordan

  Commitment, Years, Games

  Michael Jordan, Mark Vancil (2006). “Driven from Within”, p.52, Simon and Schuster

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• Wisdom is not finally tested in schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof, Applies to all stages and objects and qualities and is content, Is the certainty of the reality and immortality of things, and the excellence of things; Something there is in the float of the sight of things that provokes it out of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  School, Reality, Sight

  Walt Whitman (2012). “Selected Poems”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• My work is never perfect. It always can be better but I just believe that we need to achieve a really high level of excellence. I don't believe in the "Good Enough" principle as a Christian.

  Brian Bird

  Christian, Believe, Perfect

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

  C. S. Lewis

  Art, Firsts, Duty

  C. S. Lewis (2013). “Selected Literary Essays”, p.103, Cambridge University Press

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• Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

  Tom Peters

  Memorable, Find Me, Humans

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• The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

  John Steinbeck

  Writing, Simple, Offering

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