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Tag Name "Excellence" (790)

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I no more thought of style or literary excellence than the mother who rushes into the street and cries for help to save her children from a burning house, thinks of the teachings of the rhetorician or the elocutionist.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
John W. Gardner
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Aim not to win or succeed, but for excellence in the moment.
Dan Millman
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Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
Jackie Kennedy
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Excellence is going the extra mile.
Joyce Meyer
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The excellence of every Art is its intensity.
John Keats
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Spirits are not finely touched But to fine issues, nor Nature never lends The smallest scruple of her excellence But like a thrifty goddess she determines Herself the glory of a creditor,Both thanks and use.
William Shakespeare
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Life is teleology par excellence it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.
Carl Jung
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A wise man can and should stand above his times, not so the poet, but he should be their apex.
Franz Grillparzer
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To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.
Joseph Addison
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They call it coaching but it is teaching. You do not just tell them...you show them the reasons.
Vince Lombardi
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I have always looked at it this way: If you strive like crazy for perfection - an all-out assault on total perfection - at the very least you will hit a high level of excellence, and then you might be able to sleep at night. To accomplish something truly significant, excellence has to become a life plan.
Charlie Trotter
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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Andy Hertzfeld
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whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.
David Sedaris
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I predict a long reign ahead of you. Years of being referred to as Your Majesty, Your Grace, Your Excellence, My Liege, My Queen, My Lovely.” “I don’t think that last one is a formal title,” I said. “It should be.
Amanda Hocking
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It is called the real presence, not in an exclusive sense, as though other forms of presence were not real, but by reason of its excellence. It is the substantial presence by which Christ is made present without doubt, whole and entire, God and man.
Pope Paul VI
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Striving for excellence motivates you striving for perfection is demoralizing.
Harriet B. Braiker
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
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Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
Paul Russo
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I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?
Jeff Buckley
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
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Perfection is not a destination it's a never-ending process...Enjoy!
Jim Bouchard
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Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.
Orison Swett Marden
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