Excellence Quotes

• Norwich is a fine city. None finer. If there is another city in the United Kingdom with a school of painters named after it, a matchless modern art gallery, a university with a reputation for literary excellence which can boast Booker Prize-winning alumni, one of the grandest Romanesque cathedrals in the world, and an extraordinary new state-of-the-art library then I have yet to hear of it.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • School
  • Art
  • Excellence

• It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

  

  Ethan Hawke
  • Find
  • Excellence
  • Dedicated

• 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
  • Men
  • Desire
  • Passion

• I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.

  

  Rita Coolidge
  • Challenge
  • Excellence
  • Incredible

• The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.

  

  John Calvin
  • Church
  • Excellence
  • Purity

• I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

  

  Eunice Kathleen Waymon
  • Freedom
  • Excellence
  • Classical Music

• You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

  

  Eric Thomas
  • Excellence

• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  

  Will Durant
  • Habit
  • Excellence

• 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.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Feels
  • Forgiveness
  • Accepting

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