Excellence Quotes
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Demand excellence.
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Excellence or virtue is a settled disposition of the mind that determines our choice of actions and emotions and consists essentially in observing the mean relative to us ... a mean between two vices, that which depends on excess and that which depends on defect.
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Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence brings about wealth and all other public and private blessings for men.
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Television is by nature the dominator drug par excellence. Control of content, uniformity of content, repeatability of content make it inevitably a tool of coersion, brainwashing, and manipulation.
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We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.
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You cannot use the democratic process for the procurement of excellence.
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She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.
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When someone is good at what he does but is a nonconformist, there is a temptation in horse racing, like in all kinds of other areas of human endeavor, to dismiss him for his nonconformity rather than to recognize him for his excellence.
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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.
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We don't settle for anything less than excellence.
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Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.
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You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
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The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.
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The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.
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Your earning ability is largely determined by the perception of excellence, quality, and value that others have of you and what you do. The market only pays excellent rewards for excellent performance. It pays average rewards for average performance, and it pays below average rewards or unemployment for below average performance.
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The Good of man is the active exercise of his soul's faculties in conformity with excellence or virtue, or if there be several human excellences or virtues, in conformity with the best and most perfect among them.
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Some critics claim to know what art has to be and do, and consider it their task to steer art along the path they have chosen. Others receive art gladly, and try to distinguish degrees of excellence.
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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
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Excellence has no sex.
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Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.
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Don't dismiss Auriemma and UConn just because their excellence shines on the female side of the coin.
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Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
