Excellence Quotes
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Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.
Raymond Loewy
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Real excellence does not come cheaply. A certain price must be paid in terms of practice, patience, and persistence - natural ability notwithstanding.
Stephen Covey
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Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.
Mike Krzyzewski
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Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.
Seth Godin
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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.
Catharine Macaulay
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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.
William Hazlitt
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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.
Seth Godin
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Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.
Hesham Qandil
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I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.
Sumner Redstone
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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.
Raymond Loewy
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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.
William James
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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.
Norbert Lynton