Excellence Quotes
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We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.
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In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.
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Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
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Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day
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one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.
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In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
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What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
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The news leak is a pseudo‑event par excellence. In its origin and growth, the leak illustrates another axiom of the world of pseudo‑events: pseudo‑events produce more pseudo‑events.
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We will be retiring the jersey of one of our heroes, Karl Malone, to hang in the rafters forever among those whom we have already enshrined. In addition to his excellence on the court, Karl and his wife Kay also made great contributions to this community with their time and financial commitments to many worthy organizations.
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
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Our society cannot afford a two-tiered system in which the affluent have access to superior education, while everyone else is subjected to a dull and incoherent classroom experience. Academic excellence, educational equity, and fairness demand a strong foundation of knowledge for all learners.
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Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.
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The secret of architectural excellence is to translate the proportions of a dachshund into bricks, mortar and marble.
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La Scala is easily one of the top 10 symbols of Italy's cultural excellence. That makes it vital to our global image. Closing it would send a message to the rest of the world that Italy doesn't care.
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In an ideal world, nobody's work would be just about the money. People could pursue excellence in what they do, take pride in achievement, and derive meaning from knowing that their work improved the lives of others.
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
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There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
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But, perhaps, the excellence of aphorisms consists not so much in the expression of some rare or abstruse sentiment, as in the comprehension of some obvious and useful truth in few words.
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We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
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We are in a situation where we can have a developing backup quarterback because of the excellence of Tony Romo. We can have that behind him. To me, that's what you're ideally striving for.
