Excellence Quotes - Page 33

• Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.

  David Maister

  Believe, Compromise, Professionalism

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• Excellence is going the extra mile.

  Joyce Meyer

  Going The Extra Mile, Miles, Extras

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• Strive each day to make your life purer, richer, and more luminous. You will subtly and imperceptibly lead all of creation heavenward.

  Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov

  Life, Motivational, Heaven

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• Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.

  E. D. Hirsch, Jr.

  Inspirational, Education, Strong

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• The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect.
  The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

  Alan Kulwicki

  Frustration, Perfect, Waste

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• Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

  Masato

  Design, Achievement, Standards

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• Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

  Hannah Arendt

  Nature, Keys, Law

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.23, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I had a dual goal in my running that was to win and to achieve excellence, so I was never happy with a slow tactical time. If the race were slow I would get in front and pull it up again. I couldn't stand a slow race. A lot of people seem to get screwed up on tactics. There is only one tactic in a race and that is to always be in a position where you can win it.

  Herb Elliott

  Motivational, Running, Winning

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• Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

  Laozi

  Essence, Profound, Taoism

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• Strictly excel in what is excellence with grace

  GZA

  Grace

  Song: Breaker, Breaker, Album: Beneath the Surface

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• We need imagination in programming, not sterility; creativity, not imitation; experimentation, not conformity; excellence, not mediocrity. Television is filled with creative, imaginative people. You must strive to set them free.

  Newton N. Minow

  Creativity, People, Imagination

  Television and the Public Interest, delivered 9 May 1961, National Association of Broadcasters, Washington, DC

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• When [the saints] perform actions to God, then the soul says: 'Oh! that I could do what pleases God!' When they come to suffer any cross: 'Oh, that what God does might please me!' I labour to do what pleases God, and I labour that what God does shall please me: here is a Christian indeed, who shall endeavour both these. It is but one side of a Christian to endeavour to do what pleases God; you must as well endeavour to be pleased with what God does, and so you will come to be a complete Christian when you can do both, and that is the first thing in the excellence of this grace of contentment.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Please Me, Grace

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• To be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory and excellence of a Christian.

  Jeremiah Burroughs

  Christian, Contentment, Mystery

  Jeremiah Burroughs, Rev Terry Kulakowski, Editor (2015). “The Rare Jewel of Christian Contentment”, p.15, Lulu.com

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• Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.

  Hesham Qandil

  Egypt, World, Becoming

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• There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

  Jacques Ellul

  Law, Giving, Made

  Jacques Ellul (2009). “Money and Power”, p.110, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• If you're studying for an exam you're not thinking about the results. If you're always worried about the results, you can't study a lot. So to be engaged and detached from the outcome is excellent. Excellence is behavior. I mean, isn't that what martial arts is about? And that's what meditation is about, that's what, in many ways, sports are about.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sports, Art, Mean

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• Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.

  Catharine Macaulay

  Men, Law, Perfect

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• The ethics of excellence are grounded in action - what you actually do, rather than what you say you believe. Talk, as the saying goes, is cheap.

  Price Pritchett

  Believe, Ethics, Belief

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• To think that practice and realization are not one is a heretical view. In the Buddha Dharma, practice and realization are identical. Because one's present practice is practice in realization, one's initial negotiating of the Way in itself is the whole of original realization. Thus, even while directed to practice, one is told not to anticipate a realization apart from practice, because practice points directly to original realization.

  Masao Abe

  Thinking, Views, Practice

  Masao Abe, William R. LaFleur (1989). “Zen and Western Thought”, p.57, University of Hawaii Press

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• The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

  Price Pritchett

  Exercise, Mediocrity, Way

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• Non-Christians seem to think that the Incarnation implies some particular merit or excellence in humanity. But of course it implies just the reverse: a particular demerit and depravity. No creature that deserved Redemption would need to be redeemed. They that are whole need not the physician. Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it.

  C. S. Lewis

  Christian, Men, Thinking

  C. S. Lewis (2002). “The World's Last Night: And Other Essays”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Knowing, Perfection, Theatre

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• There is always a best way of doing everything.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Way, Best Way

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.380

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• Set exorbitant standards, and give your people hell when they don't live up to them. There is nothing so demoralizing as a boss who tolerates second rate work.

  David Ogilvy

  People, Giving, Boss

  David Ogilvy (2012). “The Unpublished David Ogilvy”, p.70, Profile Books

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• There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Trying, Faculty

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