Exceptional Quotes - Page 9

• Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

  Chuck Grassley

  Successful, Unlimited Potential, People

  4 Copy quote

• The suffering and calamity are, moreover, exceptional. They befall a conspicuous person. They are themselves of some striking kind. They are also, as a rule, unexpected, and contrasted with previous happiness or glory. A tale, for example, of a man slowly worn to death by disease, poverty, little cares, sordid vices, petty persecutions, however piteous or dreadful it might be, would not be tragic in the Shakespearean sense.

  A. C. Bradley

  Men, Suffering, Vices

  A. C. Bradley (2016). “Shakespearean Tragedy”, p.9, A. C. Bradley

  17 Copy quote

  Show source

• The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor.

  Eric Hoffer

  Leader, Vigor, Social

  4 Copy quote

• King Fahd was also committed to the strong and trusting relations between France and Saudi Arabia. This old friendship, which began with an exceptional link established by General De Gaulle, took on a new dimension under his reign, helped by a shared vision of what was at stake regionally and internationally.

  Jacques Chirac

  Strong, Kings, Old Friends

  5 Copy quote

• The secret to Hitler's power is ... that his unconscious has exceptional access to his conscious and ... that he allows himself to be moved by it. [Others] have too much rationality, too much cerebrum to obey it [but] Hitler listens.

  Carl Jung

  Secret, Too Much, Conscious

  20 Copy quote

• We only have one penal code in the United States, and it applies in every single state, every city, no matter who is there. This is part of the fear mongering, that has gripped the United States, the notion that we need to pass a law forbidding the institution of a foreign Law in the United States when it is forbidden by the constitutions is yet another example of targeting Muslim communities because they are seen as different, or exceptional in other ways.

  Mark Durie

  Fear Mongering, Law, Cities

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

  5 Copy quote

  Show source

• The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Past, People, Giving

  Source: www.pbs.org

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• Still, it is the primary right of men to die and kill for the land they live in, and to punish with exceptional severity all members of their own race who have warmed their hands at the invaders' hearth.

  Winston Churchill

  Men, Race, Hands

  Winston Churchill (1995). “Churchill's History of the English-speaking Peoples”, Barnes & Noble

  15 Copy quote

  Show source

• Messi, he's exceptional. When you watch him, you feel there's a child inside him and he is making some childhood dream come true. He's a Great Player, not only for today but also tomorrow.

  Eric Cantona

  Dream, Children, Player

  8 Copy quote

• Almost in the same way as earlier physicists are said to have found suddenly that they had too little mathematical understanding to be able to master physics; we may say that young people today are suddenly in the position that ordinary common sense no longer suffices to meet the strange demands life makes. Everything has become so intricate that for its mastery an exceptional degree of understanding is required. For it is not enough any longer to be able to play the game well; but the question is again and again: what sort of game is to be played now anyway?

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Games, Play, People

  16 Copy quote

• The true exceptional performer is on super pilot. Every single sense, every fiber of his body is brought together in what he is doing.

  John Eliot

  Together, Body, Pilots

  John Eliot (2006). “Overachievement: The New Science of Working Less to Accomplish More”, Portfolio (Hardcover)

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

  James C. Collins

  Powerful, Organization, People

  4 Copy quote

• God does not love us because we are lovable, have a pleasing personality or a good sense of humor, or at rare times show exceptional kindness. In spite of who we are and what we have done, God wants to pour out His love on us, for the unlovable are also precious unto Him.

  David B. Haight

  Kindness, Personality, Doe

  21 Copy quote

• There are exceptional loyalties and there are old fashion ideas about how you get loyalties, and after all the auditorium is full of people who have co-owned shares with the managers for many decades, and in many cases they co-invested when everyone was young and obscure. Also when you come back to a place like that you are celebrating old loyalties, and of course the basic idea behind so much of Berkshire is the old fashioned idea that the best way to get loyalty is to deserve loyalty.

  Charlie Munger

  Loyalty, Fashion, Ideas

  7 Copy quote

• If
  you're going to be truly successful, then set yourself apart from
  everyone else. Go beyond the limits of what classifies the average
  person and be exceptional.

  Donald Trump

  Successful, Average, Limits

  6 Copy quote

• Such exceptional suffering and calamity, then, affecting the hero, and-we must now add-generally extending far and wide beyond him, so as to make the whole scene a scene of woe, are an essential ingredient in tragedy and a chief source of the tragic emotions, and especially of pity. But the proportions of this ingredient, and the direction taken by tragic pity, will naturally vary greatly.

  A. C. Bradley

  Taken, Hero, Suffering

  9 Copy quote

• I only eat meat, if I go to a nice restaurant and there is an exceptional dish, or if I'm at somebody's home for a dinner, I'll eat whatever is in front of me. Otherwise, I don't eat anything that walks around and has a face.

  Bryan Fuller

  Nice, Home, Meat

  Source: collider.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

  Richard Koch

  Average, Effort, Celebrate

  Richard Koch (2011). “The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less”, p.39, Crown Business

  19 Copy quote

  Show source

• Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Creativity, Littles, Talent

  4 Copy quote

• I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Rama, Realizing

  4 Copy quote

• Photography today is accomplishing a lofty mission in which every German should collaborate by buying a camera. The German people is ahead of every other in the technical domain and, thanks to its exceptional qualities, the small camera has conquered the whole world... Much is at stake here from the point of view of popular consumer goods and, furthermore, photography has a particularly important political role to play. (Addressing the Berlin Photography Fair, 1933)

  Joseph Goebbels

  Photography, Views, Play

  77 Copy quote

• The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Self, Giving, Rama

  4 Copy quote

• I think Canadian talent is exceptional. You continually show us up here in the States with your brilliancy.

  Jamie Farr

  Thinking, Talent, States

  7 Copy quote

• I work in lockstep, hand in glove, with the prime minister on these issues, and as we are supportive to the Eurozone so they can sort their problems out, in return they introduce safeguards to ensure precisely what I said: that the single market is not fragmented and that important industries like the financial services industry are treated fairly. Not exceptional treatment, but are just simply treated fairly, on a level playing field within Europe.

  Nick Clegg

  Hands, Europe, Issues

  7 Copy quote

• Exceptional ideas create excellent opportunities

  Doug Berry

  Opportunity, Ideas, Excellent

  4 Copy quote