Excellence Quotes - Page 33

• Genesis 1 logs God's commitment to excellence when it says, "God saw all that he had made, and it was very good" (v. 31). Christians should always do good work. Christians ought to be the best workers wherever they are. They ought to have the best attitude, the best integrity, and be the best in dependability.

  R. Kent Hughes

  Christian, Attitude, Integrity

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• Making a judgment, taking a stand and then acting against an injustice or acting to support excellence is the stuff of the everyman hero. If you are an aspiring artist and you wish to avoid “judgments,” you'll find that you have nothing to say.

  Steven Pressfield

  Hero, Artist, Support

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• We must establish all over the country schools of our own to train our own children to become scientists, to become mathematicians. We must realize the need for adult education and for job retraining programs that will emphasize a changing society in which automation plays the key role. We intend to use the tools of education to help raise our people to an unprecedented level of excellence and self respect through their own efforts.

  Malcolm X

  Country, Jobs, Children

  Malcolm X (1992). “By any means necessary”, Pathfinder Pr

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• A powerful flight of the imagination . . . an entirely enjoyable reading experience, wrought by a pair of writers noted for excellence.

  Roger Zelazny

  Powerful, Reading, Imagination

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• It is true that genius takes its rise out of the mountains of rectitude; that all beauty and power which men covet are somehow born out of that Alpine district; that any extraordinary degree of beauty in man or woman involves a moral charm.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Men, Rose

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.430

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• We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

  John W. Gardner

  Islands, Sea, Indifference

  Dr. John W. Gardner (2015). “Excellence: Can We Be Equal And Excellent Too?”, p.143, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

  Ken Salazar

  Strong, Team, Believe

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• Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Unforgettable, Excellent, Nobody Knows

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• New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.

  Tim Cahill

  Art, New Orleans, Jazz

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• Work is the true elixir of life. The busiest man is the happiest man. Excellence in any art or profession is attained only by hard and persistent work. Never believe that you are perfect. When a man imagines, even after years of striving, that he has attained perfection, his decline begins.

  Theodore Martin

  Art, Work, Believe

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• Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

  Brian Tracy

  Each Day, Strive, Achieve

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• A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

  Roger Ascham

  Men, Language Words, Language Acquisition

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• Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

  Elsie Clews Parsons

  Educational, Cutting, Progress

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• A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

  Anna Brownell Jameson

  Art, Degrees, Goes On

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• Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

  Anton Chekhov

  Clothes, Soul, Faces

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• Excellence in life seems to me to be the way in which each human being makes the most of the adventure of living and becomes most truly and deeply himself, fulfilling his own nature in the context of a good life with other people.

  Eda LeShan

  Good Life, Adventure, People

  Eda J. LeShan (1967). “The Conspiracy Against Childhood”, New York : Atheneum

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• Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Honesty, Truth, Government

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• Mistakes are a natural part of growing up. They're to be expected and made light of. But children bloom like spring flowers under praise. They want so much to be noticed and appreciated, to excel and have that excellence noticed.

  Earl Nightingale

  Children, Growing Up, Spring

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• Commitment is mental determination to accept only EXCELLENCE no matter how difficult, uncomfortable, or stressful.

  Richard Tyler

  Determination, Commitment, Matter

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.

  Michael D. Higgins

  Heart, Years, Creating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• True Excellence requires a worthy dream, a good Idea of how to realize it and the courage to risk failure to achieve it.

  William J. Clinton

  Dream, Ideas, Risk

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• What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

  Alexi Murdoch

  Block, Gestation Period, Creative

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• If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

  Tom Peters

  What If, Ifs

  FaceBook post by Tom Peters from May 19, 2013

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• Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.

  Paul Feyerabend

  Views, Ideas, Common Sense

  "Against Method". Book by Paul Feyerabend, 1975.

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• I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

  Jerome Bruner

  Education, School, Ideas

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