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Tag Name "Excellence" (790)

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Excellence and competitiveness aren't incompatible with honesty and integrity.
Jack Welch
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When all is said and done we simply must make teaching in this country an honorable profession-since it's in the classrooms of America where the battle for excellence, ultimately, will be won or lost.
Ernest L. Boyer
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Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor it makes itself felt in all sections of society it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.
Henry Parry Liddon
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Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
Nick Murray
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Perfection belongs to the Gods the most we can hope for is excellence.
Carl Jung
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To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it to take intact a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence.
Sun Tzu
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As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.
Frederick Lenz
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People tell me I'm a perfectionist. They tell me I'm too extreme and that I work too hard. I tell them, that is all I know how to do. I was taught to give my best effort in everything I do and demand perfection and raise the standard of excellence to a whole new level.
Robert Cheeke
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Dr. King didn't get famous giving a speech that said,I have a complaint.
Van Jones
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The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.
Victor Hugo
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No good book or good thing of any kind shows it best face at first. No the most common quality of in a true work of art that has excellence and depth, is that at first sight it produces a certain disappointment.
Thomas Carlyle
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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.
Samuel Johnson
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My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
Michael Jackson
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Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)
Tom Peters
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One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.
Abraham Lincoln
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Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .
Dan Miller
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The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.
Jacques Barzun
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Success without honor is an unseasoned dish it will satisfy your hunger, but it won't taste good.
Joe Paterno
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An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.
Peter Drucker
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Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!
Pat Riley
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The value of work, and of always learning something new, and what it takes to achieve excellence. I really believe in those things that you have to dedicate yourself and spend time, that excellence is elusive. It's a little maddening, to try to have that level of discipline in your life, and I don't succeed all the time. But I do try.
Ben Affleck
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As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.
John F. Kennedy
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a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it it keeps its moment alive.
Arlene Croce
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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
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