Excellence Quotes
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
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Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.
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Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.
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People think I'm into positive thinking. I'm not a positive thinking guy. I'm into the truth. I'm a hunter of human excellence.
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My new favorite word is 'awkward.'...Th e reason we need to be in search of awkward is that awkward is the barrier between us and excellence, between where we are and the remarkable. If it were easy, everyone would have done it already, and it wouldn't be worth the effort.
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We don't settle for anything less than excellence.
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The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.
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Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.
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Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.
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The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.
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Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it
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I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.
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Men of the greatest genius are not always the most prodigal of their encomiums. But then it is when their range of power is confined, and they have in fact little perception, except of their own particular kind of excellence.
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Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
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Excellence has no sex.
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
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When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.
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Education, introspection, self-love and excellence are the only ways to overcome the wrath of ignorance
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I had hoped to be disliked by most, not by way of rebellion, but by way of excellence, disdain for the habitual, and the common man’s inability to grasp this. The act of being scorned? I saw it as a victory, my irreverent boast against this world which could never fully quench me.
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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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What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods - even extended ones - of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?
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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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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
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My hunger is not for success, it is for excellence. Because when you attain excellence, success just naturally follows.
