Outstanding Quotes - Page 9

• The origin of life is one of the great outstanding mysteries of science.

  Paul Davies

  Origin Of Life, Mystery, Life Is

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• Successful careers are not planned. They develop when people are prepared for opportunities because they know their strengths, their method of work, and their values. Knowing where one belongs can transform an ordinary person - hardworking and competent but otherwise mediocre - into an outstanding performer.

  Peter Drucker

  Successful, Opportunity, Careers

  Peter Drucker, Alan Kantrow, Rick Wartzman, Julia Kirby (2016). “Get the Right Things Done: The Drucker Collection (6 Items)”, p.16, Harvard Business Review Press

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• The seventh factor of the basic ingredients of genius, as determined from an extensive analysis of the lives of outstanding men of this nation, is *the habit of going the extra mile.* You will never be a genius unless you make it a habit to do more and better than you are paid to do, every single day of your life.

  Napoleon Hill

  Men, Analysis, Genius

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• Research shows that for jobs of all kinds, emotional intelligence is twice as important an ingredient of outstanding performance as cognitive ability and technical skill combined.

  Daniel Goleman

  Jobs, Emotional, Skills

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• To become successful and outstanding at something, we don't have to come up with something new; we need only find ways of doing it better.

  Earl Nightingale

  Successful, Needs, Way

  Robert C. Worstell, Earl Nightingale (2017). “How to Completely Change Your Life in 30 Seconds - Part IV”, p.125, Lulu.com

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• The most meaningful way to differentiate your company from your competition, is to do an outstanding job with information.

  Bill Gates

  Meaningful, Jobs, Competition

  "Business @ the Speed of Thought: Using a Digital Nervous System". Book by Bill Gates, www.entrepreneur.com. 1999.

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• Founded when Abraham Lincoln believed education could lead the nation out of its darkest days, Ohio State now provides a powerful platform of interdisciplinary academic programs, world-class scholars, outstanding students, and extensive research capabilities.

  Gordon Gee

  Powerful, Class, Ohio State

  "Standing on the Shoulders of Giants" by E. Gordon Gee, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 19, 2012.

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• I genuinely believe that any business can create a competitive advantage through giving outstanding customer care.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Believe, Giving, Care

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• No person may enjoy outstanding success without good health.

  Napoleon Hill

  May, Good Health, Enjoy

  Napoleon Hill (2015). “Think and grow rich: Brazilian edition”, p.107, CDG Edições e Publicações LTDA

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• The outstanding scientific discovery of the twentieth century is not television, or radio, but rather the complexity of the land organism.

  Aldo Leopold

  Discovery, Land, Radio

  Aldo Leopold (1972). “Round River”, p.108, Oxford University Press

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• Shakespeare is the outstanding example of how that can be done. In all of Shakespeare's plays, no matter what tragic events occur, no matter what rises and falls, we return to stability in
  the end.

  Charlton Heston

  Fall, Play, Events

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• Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Love, Romantic, Needs

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• Outstanding American men seem to see power as something you use in order to correct someone who's wrong, to change them, to show them you see more in this situation than the boss does. Outstanding American women, on the other hand, see power as a resource, something you can use to get people together, to gain commitment.

  David McClelland

  Change, Commitment, Hands

  "Interview by David C. McClelland" by Katherine Adams, in Competency, vol. 4 no.3, pp.18 - 23, Spring, 1997.

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• I haven't seen a player in this game, as long as I've been in it, that can't be pitched to... Barry is an outstanding ballplayer. I respect him an awful lot. I also have confidence in my pitchers that they can pitch to Barry Bonds and get him out.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Confidence, Player

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• A society should be judged not by how it treats its outstanding citizens but by how it treats its criminals.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Criminals, Citizens, Prison

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• After announcing that the 2000 season would be his last before retirement: Last winter I made the decision to coach for only one more season. I have been wrestling with the timing of announcing that decision. After seeing the outstanding attitude and work ethic of this team, I came to the conclusion that it's best to get the announcement out of the way now so we can focus on the season and avoid the repeated distractions that come from questions about my retirement.

  LaVell Edwards

  Retirement, Attitude, Team

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• I hope there will be some good news and some good profits, and people will realize we have a lot of outstanding executives, and a lot of companies that are doing a good job, and those are good companies to invest in.

  Don Nickles

  Jobs, People, News

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• If you had to spend every second, of every day, of every year of your life with someone, would you do whatever it took to love that person? Would you be a best friend, a teacher, coach and mentor? Would you do whatever it takes to treat that person with respect? Well guess what? That someone is you! Who deserves the best more than you do? Think about it and have an outstanding day...!

  James A. Murphy III

  Teacher, Thinking, Years

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• The Army is the most outstanding institution in every country, for it alone makes possible the existence of all civic institutions.

  Helmuth James Graf von Moltke

  Country, Military, Army

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• The flowering of human society depends on two factors: the intellectual power of outstanding men to conceive sound social and economic theories, and the ability of these or other men to make these ideologies palatable to the majority.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Men, Ideas, Two

  Ludwig von Mises (2016). “Human Action”, p.1075, Lulu Press, Inc

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• If they learn easily, they are penalized for being bored when they have nothing to do; if they excel in some outstanding way, they are penalized as being conspicuously better than the peer group. The culture tries to make the child with a gift into a one-sided person, to penalize him at every turn, to cause him trouble in making friends and to create conditions conducive to the development of a neurosis. Neither teachers, the parents of other children, nor the child peers will tolerate a Wunderkind.

  Margaret Mead

  Motivational, Teacher, Children

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• The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.

  Benjamin Carson

  Doctors, Care, Medical

  "Think Big: Unleashing Your Potential for Excellence". Book by Ben Carson and Cecil Murphey, 1996.

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• I'm a guy who had to perform some way. I had to perform in some way. If not as an actor, I'd perform as an artist. It would have been something that would be outstanding in its own way.

  Jack Kirby

  Artist, Guy, Would Be

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• I want to be remembered as a great friend, an outstanding father, an amazing husband, and a good soul who always strived to serve God and man. And during that time of service on earth, I would like people to think, "He brought joy, love, opportunity, and fulfillment to millions of people."

  Tony Robbins

  Husband, Father, Opportunity

  Interview with Dr. Joe Blaes, www.dentaleconomics.com. February 1, 2000.

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• If you look at most of the Royal Houses in Europe, the inbreeding was pretty outstanding.

  Nikolaj Coster-Waldau

  Europe, House, Looks

  "Nikolaj Coster-Waldau: Jaime isn’t a psychopath. He’s a realist". Interview with Jarett Wieselman, pagesix.com. May 13, 2011.

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