Excellence Quotes - Page 35

• New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, New Orleans, Jazz

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

  Brian Tracy

  Each Day, Strive, Achieve

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• The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

  William C. Brown

  Italian, Media, Stupidity

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• A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.

  Michelle Malkin

  Children, School, Phones

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• Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.

  William Shakespeare

  Issues, Use, Spirit

  William Shakespeare (2012). “Comedies of Shakespeare in Plain and Simple English (a Modern Translation and the Original Version)”, p.1845, BookCaps Study Guides

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• We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of credit by which a nation-wide usury rises like a Golem (a created monster) with a million hands on a million throats, to choke the honor and the freedom-of-movement of a hard-working people.

  Samuel Roth

  Hard Work, Hands, People

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• I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

  Ken Salazar

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• We should give the Lord the excellence He deserves in everything we do.

  Ricky Skaggs

  Giving, Lord, Should

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• Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

  Debi Thomas

  Strong, Belief, Olympian

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• Persistence. Perfection. Patience. Power. Prioritize your passion. It keeps you sane.

  Criss Jami

  Patience, Passion, Persistence

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.100, Criss Jami

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• As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

  Criss Jami

  Feelings, Relaxation, Want

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.130, Criss Jami

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• We usually get what we anticipate.

  Claude M. Bristol

  Anticipation, Anticipate

  Claude M. Bristol (2013). “The Magic of Believing”, p.87, Courier Corporation

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• In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

  Criss Jami

  Bullying, Land, Weakness

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.98, Criss Jami

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• As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

  John Brunner

  Mind, Different, Literature

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• The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?

  Walter Dean Myers

  Ideas, Black, Taught

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• You have excellence on the inside. It’s who you are. Now do your part. Bring out your excellence!

  Joel Osteen

  Who You Are

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• We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

  Mike Curb

  Team, Knowing, Groups

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• We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

  John W. Gardner

  Islands, Sea, Indifference

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.143, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

  Lisa Bonet

  Endurance, Levels, Olympics

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

  Jeff Henderson

  Leadership, Thinking, Offensive

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• The business virtue par excellence is honesty without it markets can't long survive.

  Ted Malloch

  Honesty, Long, Virtue

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• When people freely identify with their work and find themselves through it, excellence follows.

  Ted Malloch

  People

  "Doing Virtuous Business: The Remarkable Success of Spiritual Enterprise". Book by Ted Malloch, 2011.

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• What must it be like to live in Rush Limbaughs world? A world where when anyone other than conservative, white men attempts to do anything or enter any profession, be it business, politics, art or sports, the only reason theyre allowed entry or, incredibly, attain excellence is because the standard was lowered. Be they liberals, people of color, women, the poor or anyone with an accent.... Edgy, controversial, brilliant. What a way to shake up intelligent sports commentary. Hitler would have killed in talk radio. He was edgy, too.

  Nancy Giles

  Sports, Art, Intelligent

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• The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.

  Aristotle

  Maturity, Giving, Moral

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