Excellence Quotes - Page 38

• There are writers who can show you the excellence of their brains and writers who show you the depths of their souls: I don't know any writer who does both at the same time as brilliantly as Roxane Gay.

  Elizabeth McCracken

  Gay, Soul, Brain

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• Pursue excellence; ignore success.

  Deepak Chopra

  Pursue

  Twitter post from Apr 12, 2017

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• All the excesses, all the violence, and all the vanity of great men, come from the fact that they know not what they are: it being difficult for those who regard themselves at heart as
  equal with all men... For this it is necessary for one to forget himself, and to believe that he has some real excellence above them, in which consists this illusion that I am endeavoring to
  discover to you.

  Blaise Pascal

  Real, Believe, Heart

  Blaise Pascal (1961). “Thoughts”

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• All who say the same things do not possess them in the same manner; and hence the incomparable author of the Art of Conversation pauses with so much care to make it understood that we must not judge of the capacity of a man by the excellence of a happy remark that we heard him make. Let us penetrate, says he, the mind from which it proceeds. It will oftenest be seen that he will be made to disavow it on the spot, and will be drawn very far from this better thought in which he does not believe, to plunge himself into another, quite base and ridiculous.

  Blaise Pascal

  Art, Believe, Men

  "The Art of Persuasion". Book by Blaise Pascal, translated by O. W. Wright, www.bartleby.com. 2001.

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• Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.

  Aristotle

  Mean, Two, Choices

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• I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

  Carl Hagelin

  Thinking, Get Better, Want

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• To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

  John Avery

  Mean, Achieve, Aspire

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• We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

  Marianne Williamson

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• You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

  Eric Thomas

  Excellent

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• All excellence is equally difficult.

  Thornton Wilder

  Difficult

  Thornton Wilder, Jackson R. Bryer (1992). “Conversations with Thornton Wilder”, p.77, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try.

  Ben Affleck

  Believe, Learning Something New, Discipline

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• One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

  Sándor Márai

  Betrayal, Character, Disloyalty

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• Going far beyond that call of duty, doing more than others expect, this is what excellence is all about! And it comes from striving, maintaining the highest standards, looking after the smallest detail, and going the extra mile. Excellence means doing your very best. In everything! In every way.

  Jack Johnson

  Mean, Details, Way

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• I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

  Yehudi Menuhin

  Men, Thinking, Offering

  Yehudi Menuhin (1978). “Unfinished journey”

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• There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

  Marianne Williamson

  Creativity, Roles, Spirit

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• As I see it, the greatest responsibility of motherhood is to make sure that our children know that there are principles of kindness, compassion, integrity, excellence, and discipline.

  Marianne Williamson

  Children, Kindness, Integrity

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• Judicial excellence means that a Supreme Court justice must have a sense of the values from which our core of our political- economic system goes. In other words, we should not approve any nominee whose extreme judicial philosophy would undermine rights and liberties relied upon by all Americans.

  Herb Kohl

  Philosophy, Mean, Rights

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Judicial excellence requires an understanding that the law is more than an intellectual game and more than a mental exercise. He or she must recognize that real people with real problems are affected by the decisions rendered by the court. Justice, after all, may be blind, but it should not be deaf.

  Herb Kohl

  Real, Exercise, Law

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

  Herb Kohl

  Giving, Confirmation, Enormous

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

  Edward Hallowell

  Lack Of Respect, Disconnection

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.

  Charles Kendall Adams

  Success, Greatness, Going The Extra Mile

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• It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

  Joseph Addison

  Inspiring, Perfect, Criticism

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• Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

  Aristotle

  Lying, Mean, Men

  Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1748, Princeton University Press

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• I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

  Tyra Banks

  Perfection, Here And There, Sometimes

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• If you never change your mind, why have one?

  Edward de Bono

  Motivational, Depression, Mind

  Edward de Bono (2010). “How To Have A Beautiful Mind”, p.166, Random House

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