Aristotle Quotes

The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

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• CERN is a centre of scientific excellence and a source of pride and inspiration for physicists from all over the world, a cradle for technology and innovation, and a shining concrete example of scientific cooperation and peace.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Peace
  • Technology
  • Inspiration

• It's not a terribly original thing to say, but I love Raymond Carver. For one thing, he's fun to read out loud.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Fun
  • Thing
  • Say

• I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

  

  Beck
  • Thing
  • Poem
  • Grammys

• The smaller the function, the greater the management.

  

  C. Northcote Parkinson
  • Management
  • Function

• I'm related to the portrait painter George Romney.

  

  Wavy Gravy
  • Painter
  • Related
  • Portrait

• One thing I love to do is produce. I've produced a couple of bands. I mean, nothing ever really happened with 'em, but I enjoy getting a young band into the studio and guiding them, and making them feel at ease.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Feel
  • Young
  • Thing

• Stand-up, I find it really difficult. It's not really my thing.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Up
  • Find
  • Difficult

• There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Book
  • Moral
  • Thing

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

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • inspirational
  • Excellence
  • Perfection

• One of the outstanding achievements of the new constructional technique has been the abolition of the separating function of the wall.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Wall
  • New
  • Function

• 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

• I haven't quite got the hang of this retirement thing.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Thing
  • Retirement
  • Got

• Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.

  

  Warren Bennis
  • Teacher
  • Better
  • Profound

• He to whom the present is the only thing that is present, knows nothing of the age in which he lives.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Age
  • Present
  • Knows

• 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

• You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give up, that we're calling these, quote, 'Chinese values,' 'cause I always thought of them as American values.

  

  Amy Chua
  • Up
  • Work
  • American

• It's interesting too, that the coach of that Georgia Tech team who led his valiant warriors to those 222 points was none other than John Heisman. Yes, he whom the Heisman trophy is named for, an award that honors that college player who best exemplifies excellence and integrity.

  

  Frank Deford
  • Interesting
  • Team
  • College

• That's the trouble, a sex symbol becomes a thing. But if I'm going to be a symbol of something, I'd rather it be sex than some of the things we've got symbols of... I just hate to be a thing.

  

  Marilyn Monroe
  • Hate
  • Thing
  • Sex symbol

• The commonest thing is delightful if one only hides it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Thing
  • Hide
  • Delightful

• William Faulkner, Muriel Spark, Richard Yates, William Styron, James Salter, Alice Munro. They're very different writers, and I admire them for different reasons. The common thread, I guess, is that they remind me what's possible, why I wanted to write fiction in the first place.

  

  Jennifer Haigh
  • Different
  • Why

• I know there are a lot of musicians and a lot of artists, and there are a lot of writers and other people who inspire young people, but I'd like to see somebody in political life be able to connect and make these choices that we need to make in Washington real in terms of people's lives.

  

  John F. Kerry
  • People
  • Life
  • Real

• The excellence of a thing is related to its proper function.

  

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