Excellence Quotes - Page 18

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

  Matthew Syed

  Doe, Concentration, Translate

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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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• 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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• Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

  George Will

  Sports, Integrity, Play

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster

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• The pathway to educational excellence lies within each school.

  Terrence E. Deal

  Educational, Lying, School

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• Nobody hands you excellence on a silver platter. You earn it through planning, preparing, and persisting in the face of all obstacles.

  Terry Orlick

  Sports, Silver Platter, Hands

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• An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

  Kip Tindell

  Fun, Smart, Achievement

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• Most people are too busy working on insignificant projects and pursuing life's frivolities to tap their creative abilities. It's a mistake to be one of them. Striving for excellence where excellence doesn't matter is the stuff misfits are made of.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Mistake, People

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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

  Art, Trying, Degrees

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• Hard work is not punishment. Hard work is the price of admission for the opportunity to reach sustained excellence

  Jay Bilas

  Motivational, Basketball, Work

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• Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald’s contemporaries couldn’t bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

  Sarah Churchwell

  Fall, America, Age

  Sarah Churchwell (2013). “Careless People: Murder, Mayhem and the Invention of The Great Gatsby”, p.13, Hachette UK

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• Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

  Isabella Beeton

  Fashion, Luxury, Tables

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• Suppose a person entering a house were to feel heat on the porch, and going further, were to feel the heat increasing, the more they penetrated within. Doubtless, such a person would believe there was a fire in the house, even though they did not see the fire that must be causing all this heat. A similar thing will happen to anyone who considers this world in detail: one will observe that all things are arranged according to their degrees of beauty and excellence, and that the nearer they are to God, the more beautiful and better they are.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Beautiful, Believe, Fire

  "Sermon-Conferences of St. Thomas Aquinas on the Apostles' Creed". Book by Thomas Aquinas, 13-14, 2005.

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• Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

  John Dryden

  Leaving, Criticism, Littles

  John Dryden, John Mitford (1836). “The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life”, p.424

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• Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

  John Lancaster Spalding

  Spring, Mean, Roots

  John Lancaster Spalding (1901). “Aphorisms and Reflections: Conduct, Culture and Religion”

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• Now in this island of Atlantis there was a great and wonderful empire which had rule over the whole island and several others, and over parts of the continent and, furthermore, the men of Atlantis had subjected the parts of Libya within the columns of Heracles as far as Egypt, and of Europe as far as Tyrrhenia.This vast power, gathered into one, endeavored to subdue at a blow our country and yours and the whole of the region within the straits, and then, Solon, your country shone forth, in the excellence of her virtue and strength, among all mankind.

  Plato

  Country, Blow, Men

  Plato (2012). “Gorgias and Timaeus”, p.195, Courier Corporation

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• I cannot believe that any man who deserved fame ever labored for it; that is, directly. For, as fame is but the contingent of excellence, it would be like an attempt to project a shadow, before its substance was obtained.

  Washington Allston

  Believe, Men, Shadow

  Washington ALLSTON, Richard Henry DANA (Author of “Two Years before the Mast.”.) (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems ... Edited by Richard Henry Dana, Jr”, p.174

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• If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

  Washington Allston

  Art, Delight, Sake

  Washington Allston (1850). “Lectures on Art, and Poems”, p.167

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• Difficult, say you? Difficult to be a man of virtue, truly good, shaped and fashioned without flaw in the perfect figure of four-squared excellence, in body and mind, in act and thought?

  Simonides of Ceos

  Men, Perfect, Mind

  "The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles". 429 BC.

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• We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

  Mitt Romney

  Military, World, Gaps

  Boston Globe, November 16, 2005.

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• Swift blazing flag of the regiment,Eagle with crest of red and gold,These men were born to drill and die.Point for them the virtue of slaughter,Make plain to them the excellence of killingAnd a field where a thousand corpses lie.

  Stephen Crane

  Lying, Men, Eagles

  Stephen Crane (2005). “The Red Badge of Courage and Other Stories”, p.248, Penguin

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• Jewish success is due to a culture that promotes excellence, blessed with self discipline, education, dedication and a quest for leaving this world a better place.

  Nonie Darwish

  Blessed, Dedication, Self

  Address at the Feat of Tabernacles convention, Jerusalem, 2007.

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• Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.

  Xenocrates

  Possession, Subservient

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• The universe may be as great as they say. But it wouldn't be missed if it didn't exist.

  Piet Pieterszoon Hein

  Religion, May, Morality

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