Our definition of a weakness is anything that gets in the way of excellent performance. — Donald O. Clifton Copy Share Image
Curiosity and listening [are the principles to an excellent interview]. I never go into an interview with a dedicated list of questions… — Michael Kay Copy Share Image
Conviction never so excellent, is worthless until it coverts itself into conduct. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
Iran's experience shows that when religious scholars and UNFPA work together to solve reproductive health issues, there can be excellent results. — Hossein Malek-Afzali Copy Share Image
Walking around nude in front of humans was not a good way to keep a low profile with the community. It was… — Rachel Vincent Copy Share Image
Rare almost as great poets, rarer, perhaps, than veritable saints and martyrs; are consummate men of business. A man, to be excellent… — Arthur Helps Copy Share Image
In America the geography is sublime, but the men are not; the inventions are excellent, but the inventors one is sometimes ashamed… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have never yet known a poet who did not think himself super-excellent. — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
There is a vast difference between an Apostolic life and the solitude of the Carthusians. The latter is truly very holy but… — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
The enemy often tries to make us attempt and start many projects so that we will be overwhelmed with too many tasks,… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
I say seduce her, seduce her tonight. Break the door down if you have to. Tell her all those things you said… — Victoria Alexander Copy Share Image
It has been my fate in a long life of production to be credited chiefly with the equivocal virtue of industry, a… — Margaret Oliphant Copy Share Image
Not only do African students deserve excellent universities, they deserve good elementary and secondary schools, too - and then, to have access… — Richard Attias Copy Share Image
Solitude is an excellent laboratory in which to observe the extent to which manners and habits are conditioned by others. — Richard E. Byrd Copy Share Image
Elizabeth Rothra's excellent biography of Charles Torrey Simpson restates his philosophies about the intrinsic value of natural ecosystems like the Everglades. No… — Marjory Stoneman Douglas Copy Share Image
Freedom of speech is the great bulwark of liberty; they prosper and die together: And it is the terror of traitors and… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
You all know my commitment to the National Health Service. While I am Secretary of State, the NHS will never be fragmented,… — Andrew Lansley Copy Share Image
Every woman who vacates a place in the teachers' ranks and enters an unusual line of work, does two excellent things: she… — Frances E. Willard Copy Share Image
Mere poets are sottish as mere drunkards are, who live in a continual mist, without seeing or judging anything clearly. A man… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them… — Ishmael Reed Copy Share Image
Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.' — Arthur Smith Copy Share Image
My dad always said to go for my hobby and used to commend me for my excellent judgement so i try to… — Heather McDonald Copy Share Image
It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us. — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image