Excellence Quotes - Page 40

• Success without honor is an unseasoned dish; it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.

  Joe Paterno

  Success, Business, Congratulations

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• If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

  Octavio Paz

  Relationship, Couple, Return

  Octavio Paz (1973). “Alternating Current”, p.53, Arcade Publishing

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• Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

  Tom Peters

  Vision, Able, Company

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• 'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

  Tom Peters

  Numbers, Titles, Dry

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• I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

  Dennis Quaid

  Inspirational, Perfection, Important

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• Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

  Mitt Romney

  Health, Opportunity, Choices

  Mitt Romney's Speech at the Republican National Convention in Saint Paul, Minnesota, www.npr.org. September 3, 2008.

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• I demand excellence from the people I work with.

  Ricky Schroder

  People, Demand

  "Ricky Schroder directing daughter's acting debut in 'Our Wild Hearts'". www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2013.

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• The imaginations of believers have dressed up and exaggerated the excellence of the style and matter of the New Testament generally, in the same manner, in which they have the moral instructions of Jesus.

  Lysander Spooner

  Jesus, Imagination, Style

  Lysander Spooner (1971). “The collected works of Lysander Spooner”

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• To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a virtue so rare as to be worthy of canonization.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Cute, Everyday, Details

  Harriet Beecher Stowe, Harriet Beecher STOWE (2016). “Collected Works (Complete and Illustrated Editions: Uncle Tom's Cabin, Queer Little Folks, The Chimney-Corner, ...)”, p.645, Harriet Beecher Stowe

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• People often say that this or that person has not yet found himself. But the self is not something one finds, it is something one creates.

  Thomas Szasz

  Life, Wisdom, Creating

  Thomas Stephen Szasz (2004). “Words to the Wise: A Medical-Philosophical Dictionary”, p.139, Transaction Publishers

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• People think that at the top there isn't much room. They tend to think of it as an Everest. My message is that there is tons of room at the top.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Success, Work, Opportunity

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• I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

  Justin Timberlake

  Perfection, Upset, Helping

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• Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

  Voltaire

  Time, Hands, Goal

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• I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

  Emma Watson

  Perfection, Perfectionist

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• There is nothing so powerful as truth, and often nothing so strange.

  Daniel Webster

  Truth, Honesty, Powerful

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1851). “Legal arguments and speeches to the jury. Diplomatic and official papers. Miscellaneous letters”, p.68

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• When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

  Harvey Weinstein

  Oscars, Accepting, Goliath

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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• When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

  Harvey Weinstein

  Artist, Doe, Cost

  "Harvey Weinstein On Hollywood's Heated Oscar Race". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.wbaa.org. December 2, 2011.

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• Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.

  Allen West

  Country, Integrity, Marine

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• Confined on the ship, from which there is no escape, the madman is delivered to the river with its thousand arms, the sea with its thousand roads, to that great uncertainty external to everything. He is a prisoner in the midst of what is the freest, the openest of routes: bound fast at the infinite crossroads. He is the Passenger par excellence: that is, the prisoner of the passage. And the land he will come to is unknown—as is, once he disembarks, the land from which he comes. He has his truth and his homeland only in that fruitless expanse between two countries that cannot belong to him.

  Michel Foucault

  Country, Sea, Land

  Michel Foucault (2001). “Madness and Civilization: A History of Insanity in the Age of Reason”, p.9, Psychology Press

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• I didn't have friends. No one talked to me. I used to go to the Wyndcroft School (nationally recognized for academic excellence) in Pottstown, and when I moved to Wyomissing, I didn't know anybody.

  Taylor Swift

  School, Academic Excellence, Used

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• There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

  Thomas Mann

  Lying, Artist, Simple

  "Death in Venice". Book by Thomas Mann, translated by David Luke. Chapter 3, 1912.

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• A man should demand much from himself, but little from others. When you meet a man of worth, think how you may attain to his excellence. When you meet an unworthy one, then look within and examine yourself.

  Confucius

  Men, Thinking, Looks

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• Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

  Patch Adams

  Mean, Poverty, Ending Poverty

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• True prayer is only another name for the love of God. Its excellence does not consist in the multitude of our words; for our Father knoweth what things we have need of before we ask Him. The true prayer is that of the heart, and the heart prays only for what it desires. To pray, then is to desire -- but to desire what God would have us desire. He who asks what he does not from the bottom of his heart desire, is mistaken in thinking that he prays.

  Francois Fenelon

  Prayer, Father, Heart

  Francois Fenelon (2014). “Spiritual Progress”, p.18, Lulu.com

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• whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

  David Sedaris

  Moving, Diaries, Might

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