Exceptional Quotes - Page 7

• I think that the Cold War was an exceptional and unnecessary piece of cruelty.

  Jane Smiley

  War, Thinking, Pieces

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• In a weird way I must have loved my little collection of hurts and wounds. They provided me with some real nice sympathy, with the feeling I was exceptional... What a special case I was.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Hurt, Real, Nice

  "The Secret Life of Bees". Book by Sue Monk Kidd, 2001.

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• Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake!" (Ms. Pole)

  Elizabeth Gaskell

  Sports, Way, Emergencies

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• Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

  Salman Rushdie

  Order, Looks, Outstanding

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• Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

  Richard Koch

  Average, Effort, Celebrate

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

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• If
  you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
  everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
  person and be exceptional.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Average, Limits

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• The General Public is a statistical fiction created by a few exceptional men to make the loneliness of being exceptional a little easier to bear.

  Samuel R. Delany

  Loneliness, Men, Fiction

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• It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

  Oswald Chambers

  Mean, People, Ordinary

  Oswald Chambers (1994). “My Utmost for His Highest: The Golden Book of Oswald Chambers : Features the Author's Daily Prayers”, Discovery House Pub

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• What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different.

  Virginia C. Andrews

  Ordinary, Different, Mediocre Life

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• As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.

  David Rockefeller

  Children, Different, Unusual

  David Rockefeller (2011). “Memoirs”, p.38, Random House

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• You see, as Americans we're not defined by class, and we will never be told our place. What makes our nation exceptional is that anyone, from any background, can climb the highest of heights.

  Rick Perry

  Class, Height, Backgrounds

  Presidential Candidacy Announcement, delivered 13 August 2011, Charleston, South Carolina

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• When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.

  Melvin B. Tolson

  Poet, Historian

  Melvin B. Tolson (1982). “Caviar and Cabbage”

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• Vitality is radiated from exceptional art and architecture.

  Arthur Erickson

  Art, Light, Energy

  Speech to McGill University School of Architecture, www.arthurerickson.com. October 21, 2000.

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• The right of individual property is no doubt the very corner-stone of civilization, as hitherto understood; but I am a little impatient of being told that property is entitled to exceptional consideration because it bears all the burdens of the state. It bears those, indeed, which can be most easily borne, but poverty pays with its person the chief expenses of war, pestilence, and famine.

  James Russell Lowell

  War, Civilization, Doubt

  James Russell Lowell (1910). “Essays, English and American”

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• American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

  Gerald Celente

  War, People, Fake

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• This splendid book discusses how, in the last two hundred fifty years, large numbers of people have achieved levels of well-being that were previously available only to a few individuals, and how this achievement has given rise to equally unprecedented inequalities. Unique in its focus and scope, exceptional knowledge and coherence, and careful argumentation, The Great Escape is highly illuminating and a delight to read.

  Thomas Pogge

  Book, Unique, Years

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• I was very fortunate, and have always been, that the women I met and fell in love with were exceptional, from my first girlfriend to the woman I married when I was 21, to all the remarkable women I have known as either friends or lovers.

  Frederick Lenz

  Girlfriend, Rama, Firsts

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• The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Giving, Rama

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• The Astonishment Tapes will now take its place within the growing field of international research about postwar American poetry's important contribution to world literature. Miriam Nichols has once again done exceptional scholarship.

  Peter Gizzi

  Important, Astonishment, Fields

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• I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Rama, Realizing

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• Only massage therapists seemed to be informed about trigger points and referred pain, and only exceptional individuals among them (in my own experience at least) were treating trigger points effectively. What's more, the burgeoning variety of unproven modalities offered by massage therpaists gave the profession such an aura of flakiness that the elegant science of myofascial pain got unfairly confused with treatments whose results could easily be attributed to the placebo effect.

  Clair Davies

  Pain, Confused, Placebo Effect

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• The exceptional patient is the person who, despite their diagnosis, takes charge of their health and decides to be responsible to their illness or their condition and not necessarily feel responsible for it. One stance is drenched in blame and the other is full of power.

  Christiane Northrup

  Healing, Diagnosis, Patient

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• One of the most powerful aspects of service - being different. What is WOW? WOW! is great service! WOW! separates the EXTRAordinary from the ordinary. WOW! Separates the strong from the weak. WOW! separates the sincere from the insincere. WOW! separates the pro's from the con's. WOW! separates the yes's from the no's. WOW! is the full measure of your personal power, and the way you use it. WOW! is doing what others can't (or won't). WOW! is what you do for others in an exceptional way. WOW! is the ticket to success. Your ticket. Are you WOW?

  Jeffrey Gitomer

  Strong, Powerful, Being Different

  Jeffrey H. Gitomer (1998). “Customer Satisfaction is Worthless, Customer Loyalty is Priceless: How to Make Customers Love You, Keep Them Coming Back and Tell Everyone They Know”, Bard

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• Responsibility and danger do not tend to free or stimulate the average person's mind- rather the contrary; but wherever they do liberate an individual's judgement and confidence we can be sure that we are in the presence of exceptional ability.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Responsibility, Average, Judgement

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (2007). “On War”, p.230, Oxford University Press, USA

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• With support jobs moving to China and India, it's not surprising that English-speaking countries' top frustration revolves around the difficulty of understanding customer service representatives. However, even if the level of customer service is exceptional, the extent to which poorly-understood accents trump quality of service speaks to English-speaking customers' growing intolerance of non-native speech, more so than in other countries.

  Bob Hayes

  Country, Jobs, Moving

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