Excellence Quotes - Page 15

• The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

  Ken Robinson

  Commitment, Creative, Energy

  Ken Robinson Ph.D., Lou Aronica (2009). “The Element: How Finding Your Passion Changes Everything”, p.84, Penguin

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• There is definitely a connection between finding your passion and reaching your potential. People ask me all the time, 'John, how do I know what I am meant to do in life?' The answer is really simple: Energy and Excellence. When you experience unbounded energy in what you are doing, when you are driven to excellence in your work and love what you do - then you can rest assured that you have found your passion and are definitely in pursuit of your full potential.

  John C. Maxwell

  Passion, Simple, People

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• We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence. But they hesitate, waiting for the other fellow to make the first move-and he, in turn, waits for you.

  Aristotle

  Integrity, Moving, Waiting

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• Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

  Laurence Olivier

  Perfection, Excuse, Strive

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• Be an evangelist with your excellence.

  Dave Ramsey

  Evangelists

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• Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.

  Anthony Bourdain

  People, Innovation, Weirdness

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• When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

  David McCullough

  Hard Work, Mean, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "What makes a great leader?". Interview with Scott Berinato, www.afr.com. February 8, 2013.

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• Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Motivational, Missing, World

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• I imagine a school system that recognizes learning is natural, that a love of learning is normal, and that real learning is passionate learning. A school curriculum that values questions above answers...creativity above fact regurgitation...individuality above conformity.. and excellence above standardized performance..... And we must reject all notions of 'reform' that serve up more of the same: more testing, more 'standards', more uniformity, more conformity, more bureaucracy.

  Tom Peters

  Real, Creativity, School

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• Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

  Horace Mann

  Records, Biographies, Study

  Horace Mann (1867). “Thoughts”, p.105

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• There is a family of us who have this yearning for a kind of excellence that we can manifest every day of our lives, a family who wants to believe we're not pawns, we're not victims on this planet, that knows we have the power within us here and now to change the world we see around us!

  Richard Bach

  Spiritual, Believe, World

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• Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

  Walter Pater

  Beauty, Art, Use

  Walter Pater (2013). “The Renaissance”, p.4, Simon and Schuster

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• The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

  Cheng Man-ch'ing

  Medicine, Poetry, Calligraphy

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• Real Fathers are Role Models worthy of emulation. They choose to live exemplary lifestyles of leadership and excellence

  Tara Fela-Durotoye

  Father, Real, Role Models

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• Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

  Andreas Feininger

  Photography, Light, Color

  Andreas Feininger (1973). “Photographic seeing”, Prentice Hall

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• A candle loses nothing by lighting another candle. life with ups and downs is better than a flat life or one that goes in circles. Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality; the other, a matter of time.

  Marabel Morgan

  Leadership, Sports, Persistence

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• Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

  Matthew Syed

  Doe, Concentration, Translate

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• I am thrilled to become International Vogue Editor at Condé Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the Vogue websites.

  Suzy Menkes

  Real, Writing, Commitment

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• The best way to overcome the world is not with morality or self-discipline. Christians overcome the world by seeing the beauty and excellence of Christ. They overcome the world by seeing something more attractive than the world: Christ

  Thomas Chalmers

  Beauty, Christian, Religious

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• I'm speaking of the pursuit of excellence in all things. All things! Presence of mind and devotion to craft. A great artist has these. A great chef. A great master of tea. There's powerful kung fu in a well-built house or an eloquent letter, but the limit of your imagination is bones breaking and bullets flying.

  Scott Lynch

  Powerful, Artist, Presence Of Mind

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• The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

  Azealia Banks

  Awards, Azaleas, Artistic

  "Azealia Banks And Iggy Azalea Are Going At It Again" by Adam Fleischer, www.mtv.com. December 19, 2014.

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• A service culture doesn't happen by accident. The company is always a reflection of the person at the helm. Their attitude, their values, and their commitment to service excellence will drive the actions of others in the organization. Always has...always will.

  Mac Anderson

  Attitude, Commitment, Reflection

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• Without doubt I praise the wild excellence.

  Pablo Neruda

  Prayer, Doubt, Praise

  Pablo Neruda (2015). “The Poetry of Pablo Neruda”, p.872, Macmillan

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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

  America, Quality, Want

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• There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

  Ovid

  Difficulty

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