Outstanding Quotes · Page 3

Everyone's pet is the most outstanding. This begets mutual blindness.

— Jean Cocteau

Indeed the presence of outstanding strengths presupposes that energy needed in other areas has been channeled away from them.

— Allen Shawn

Self-denial and self-discipline, however, will be recognized as the outstanding qualities of a good soldier.

— William Lyon Mackenzie King

I'm gonna go stand outside. So if anybody asks, you can just say I'm outstanding!

— Arjun Loveable

Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.

— Roger McDonald

The higher your energy level, the more efficient your body - and vice versa.

— Denise Austin

I'm about five inches from being an outstanding golfer. That's the distance my left ear is from my right.

— Ben Crenshaw

Neuer is by far the best keeper I've played with and is also outstanding outfield.

— Xabi Alonso

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there…

— Arnold J. Toynbee

Every study of high achieving men and women proves that greatness in life is only possible when you become outstanding at your…

— Brian Tracy

I have to say that Common is one of the kindest, most humble, grateful individuals that I've ever met in my life.…

— Ryan Robbins

Art is the pure realization of religious feeling, capacity for faith, longing for God. ... The ability to believe is our outstanding…

— Gerhard Richter

BBC had tried to develop the book, set in England, as a two-hour movie. I went to a meeting and they said,…

— Glen Morgan

Talk about the sickest dunk, we had one guy throw it off the library which was about 60-feet away, back onto the…

— Darryl Dawkins

Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and…

— Carl von Clausewitz

Even in those earlier times, finding the really outstanding companies and staying with them through all the fluctuations of a gyrating market…

— Anonymous

The theater is a baffling business, and a shockingly wasteful one when you consider that people who have proven their worth, who…

— Ilka Chase

He was magnificent; very clever with outstanding technique. He could pass the ball over five yards or fifty; he could see things…

— Sven-Goran Eriksson

One of the anomalies of modern ecology is the creation of two groups, each of which seems barely aware of the existence…

— Aldo Leopold

We do not need to invent sustainable human communities. We can learn from societies that have lived sustainably for centuries. We can…

— Fritjof Capra

When you meet these outstanding leaders who have been through a programme that empowers them to take positive action, to make things…

— Jane Goodall

The apologists for space science always seem over-impressed by engineering trivia and make far too much of non-stick frying pans and perfect…

— James Lovelock

Josh Bard is a catcher with excellent defensive tools and someone ... whose best days are ahead of him. He's not coming…

— Theo Epstein

I continue to believe that she has not jeopardized America's national security. Now, what I've also said is that, and she's acknowledged,…

— Barack Obama

I feel very privileged to have worked with a lot of outstanding actors: Alun Armstrong, Peter Mullan, Matt Smith and Andrew Garfield.

— Andrew Buchan

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit.

— George Allen

Milosevic was an outstanding politician who gave his all to serving his fatherland.

— Alexander Lukashenko

I think that China has many outstanding authors, and their great works should also be recognised by the world.

— Mo Yan

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their…

— Bill Walsh

Confronted by outstanding merit, there is no way of saving one's ego except by love

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I knew I could never match my father as a violinist, and there were already four generations of outstanding cellists in the…

— Leonard Slatkin

Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.

— Paul Johnson

Outstanding people in Iowa. Very down-to-earth people in Iowa. It was a great place to be.

— Mike Leach

My office prides itself on providing outstanding constituent services for the residents of Staten Island and Southern Brooklyn.

— Nicole Malliotakis

Our goal is to find an outstanding business at a sensible price, not a mediocre business at a bargain price.

— Warren Buffett

I think Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana was a case of that, who was an outstanding administrator.

— David Brooks

Taffarel was also outstanding when Galatasaray won the UEFA Cup in 2000. I watched the games of 'Gala' a lot in my childhood.

— Ilkay Gundogan

The longer you wait, the harder it is to provide outstanding customer service.

— Bill Davidow

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

— Stephen Jay Gould

My father never saw me play ball, and I was an outstanding ballplayer. I missed all that adoration.

— Danny Aiello