If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.
To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.
One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention
The test of a man’s religious life and character is not what he does in the exceptional moments of life, but what he does in the ordinary times, when there is nothing tremendous or exciting on. The worth of a man is revealed in his attitude to ordinary things when he is not before the footlights.
Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom
If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.
Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.
Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.
Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.
Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.
Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.
Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft
Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted effort on the part of businesses to seek out those with exceptional decision-making abilities, the gap between who businesses actually need, and who they hire and promote, will remain wide.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.
Either you run the day or the day runs you.
One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.
You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.
Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.
What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.
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