Cassius Jackson Keyser Quotes

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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• My first vocation was dance.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Dance
  • First
  • Vocation

• 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
  • Time
  • Universe
  • Couple

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Better
  • Excellence
  • Striving

• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  

  Walter Pater
  • Done
  • Art
  • Help

• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  

  Harriet Martineau
  • Religion
  • Temper
  • Pursuit

• As artists, we must not go down to the level of the masa; we should bring them up, intellectualize our languages, create classics out of our folk arts. We can do this if we are true to our roots and strive for excellence.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Up
  • True
  • Down

• I associated excellence in writing with New York City.

  

  Garth Risk Hallberg
  • Writing
  • City
  • Excellence

• Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.

  

  Walter Bagehot
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Success

• Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Excellence
  • Often

• Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Excellence
  • Perfection

• The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Life
  • Quality
  • Commitment

• Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Process
  • Excellence

• It meant a lot to me that Chelsea have wanted me for the last three years and that is the reason I chose them. It was important for me to come to a club with the same level of excellence. It is a great team and it is important to play for a great team.

  

  Andriy Shevchenko
  • Great
  • Important
  • Team

• I am looking for excellence. Anyone can struggle but they cannot make a ‘perfect’ film.

  

  Kamal Haasan
  • Struggle
  • Excellence

• It is moreover to weaken in those who profess this Religion a pious confidence in its innate excellence and the patronage of its Author; and to foster in those who still reject it, a suspicion that its friends are too conscious of its fallacies to trust it to its own merits.

  

  James Madison
  • Friends
  • Trust
  • Confidence

• Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

  

  Jerry Moran
  • Excellence

• Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

  

  Lewis Howes
  • Excellence

• What we have to do... is to find a way to celebrate our diversity and debate our differences without fracturing our communities.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Way
  • Celebrate
  • Communities

• When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

  

  Quentin Bryce
  • Time
  • Women
  • Mind

• Modeling was not an endgame for me. I didn't particularly enjoy the act of it.

  

  Ivanka Trump
  • Enjoy
  • Act
  • Modeling

• In order to judge of the form to be given to this institution, it will be proper to take a view of the ends to be served by it. These were, - first, to protect the people against their rulers, secondly, to protect the people against the transient impressions into which they themselves might be led.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Judge

• Characters simply come and find me. They sit down, I offer them a coffee. They tell me their story and then they almost always leave. When a character, after drinking some coffee and briefly telling her story, wants dinner and then a place to sleep and then breakfast and so on, for me the time has come to write the novel.

  

  Dacia Maraini
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Character

• The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

  

  Cassius Jackson Keyser
  • Excellence
  • Vocation
  • Pursuit