Excellence Quotes
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Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
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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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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
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Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.
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Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.
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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.
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If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.
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The total mental efficiency of a man is the resultant of the working together of all his faculties. He is too complex a being for any one of them to have the casting vote. If any one of them do have the casting vote, it is more likely to be the strength of his desire and passion, the strength of the interest he takes in what is proposed. Concentration, memory, reasoning power, inventiveness, excellence of the senses, all are subsidiary to this.
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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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Pope has elegantly said a perfect woman's but a softer man. And if we take in the consideration, that there can be but one rule of moral excellence for beings made of the same materials, organized after the same manner, and subjected to similar laws of Nature, we must either agree with Mr. Pope, or we must reverse the proposition, and say, that a perfect man is a woman formed after a coarser mold.
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I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
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Ask the proficient athlete, artist, businessperson, or homemaker what creates excellence and they'll all agree: a commitment to long-term goals - and with a community of mentors and fellow "disciples."
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
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If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.
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It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.
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Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.
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You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.
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Only after we can learn to forgive ourselves can we accept others as they are because we don't feel threatened by anything about them which is better than us.
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Whenever people talk glibly of a need to achieve educational "excellence," I think of what an improvement it would be if our public schools could just achieve mediocrity.
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
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Persons with a talent who never practice excellence are the worst enemies of themselves.
