Exceptional Quotes

• To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.

  Giorgio Armani

  Life Changing, Focus, Details

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• Individuals with high executive intelligence cannot reach their potential unless surrounded by others with a similar level of skill. Without a concerted effort on the part of businesses to seek out those with exceptional decision-making abilities, the gap between who businesses actually need, and who they hire and promote, will remain wide.

  Justin Menkes

  Effort, Individual, Ability

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 15, 2017

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• If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Dec 02, 2016

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

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Lynn smacks Uriah hard in the back of the head, Christina says, “Hey Tris!” and Uriah cries, “Ow! How on earth do you make a pillow hurt, Lynn?” “My exceptional strength,” she says.

  Veronica Roth

  Hurt, Hey, Earth

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• It's happened many times before. Usually it results in an exceptional and gifted human. Some of the greatest figures in Earth's history were actually the product of humans and the Loric, including Buddha, Aristotle, Julius Ceasar, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, Thomas Jefferson, and Albert Einstein... Aprodite, Apollo, Hermes, and Zeus were all real, and had one Loric parent

  Pittacus Lore

  Real, Parent, Apollo

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  Formal education will make you a living; self-education will make you a fortune.

  Jim Rohn

  Motivational, Success, Education

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jul 04, 2016

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• Your life does not get better by chance, it gets better by change.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 18, 2017

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• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 14, 2017

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• One of the greatest gifts you can give your husband is your own wholeness.

  Stormie Omartian

  Love, Marriage, Forgiveness

  Stormie Omartian (2014). “The Power of a Praying® Wife”, p.25, Harvest House Publishers

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• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Leadership, Art, Business

  Eisenhower, Dwight D. (1960). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1954”, p.477, Best Books on

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• Don't wish it was easier wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenge wish for more wisdom

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Jan 21, 2016

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• Either you run the day or the day runs you.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 15, 2016

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• The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.

  Lorraine Hansberry

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  "To Be Young, Gifted and Black : Lorraine Hansberry in Her Own Words" by Lorraine Hansberry, (p. 137), 1969.

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• What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

  Norman Mailer

  Evil, Groups, Minorities

  1966 Cannibals and Christians, 'A Speech AtBerkeley on Vietnam Day'.

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• Learn how to be happy with what you have while you pursue all that you want.

  Jim Rohn

  Life, Motivational, Positive

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

  Judith M Bardwick

  Morning, Motivation, Heart

  Judith M. Bardwick (1995). “Danger in the Comfort Zone: From Boardroom to Mailroom--how to Break the Entitlement Habit That's Killing American Business”, p.5, AMACOM Div American Mgmt Assn

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• Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

  John C. Maxwell

  Inspirational, Leadership, People

  John C. Maxwell (2005). “Developing the Leader Within You”, p.5, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I firmly believe that all human beings have access to extraordinary energies and powers. Judging from accounts of mystical experience, heightened creativity, or exceptional performance by athletes and artists, we harbor a greater life than we know.

  Jean Houston

  Life, God, Believe

  Jean Houston (1996). “A Mythic Life: Learning to Live Our Greater Story”, Harpercollins

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• Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable.

  Lance Morrow

  Leader, Inevitable

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• It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Inspirational, Motivation, People

  "Putin jabs U.S., Obama in op-ed, says Syria strike would be 'act of aggression'" By Jamie Crawford, www.cnn.com. September 12, 2013.

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• As bad as we are at remembering names and phone numbers and word-for-word instructions from our colleagues, we have really exceptional visual and spatial memories.

  Joshua Foer

  Memories, Motivation, Inspiration

  "Can Anyone Learn To Be A Master Memorizer?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. May 24, 2013.

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• Don't wish for less problems; wish for more skills.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Golf, Skills

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• The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  People, May, Democratic

  Alexis de Tocqueville (2003). “Democracy in America”, p.440, Barnes & Noble Publishing

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