Excellence Quote by Audre Lorde Download Open image “To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society” — Audre Lorde ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Inspirational Mediocrity Our society
It is never easy to demand the most from ourselves, from our lives, from our work. To encourage excellence is to go beyond the… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you… — Eva Moskowitz Copy Share Image
“Excellence is the result of caring more than others think is wise, risking more than others think is safe, dreaming more than others think… — Ronnie Oldham Copy Share Image
“The difference between mediocrity and excellence is often a matter of effort.” — Diana Waring Copy Share Image
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence,… — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration. — Azim Premji Copy Share Image
A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence. — Baltasar Gracian Copy Share Image
Excellence Can Be Achieved If You . . . Risk More Than Others Think Is Safe, love More Than Others Think Is Wise, Dream… — Pacifiersucker Copy Share Image
Every woman I have ever loved has left her print upon me, where I loved some invaluable piece of myself apart from me-so different… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
There are many kinds of open. . . Love is a word, another kind of open. . . Take my word for jewel in your open light. — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I can't really define it in sexual terms alone although our sexuality is so energizing why not enjoy it too? — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“For once we begin to feel deeply all the aspects of our lives, we begin to demand from ourselves and from our life-pursuits that… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
the fear of death is that you are dying too soon. Nobody wants to, but at the point that you die you can pray… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“There is an important difference between openness and naïveté. Not everyone has good intentions nor means me well. I remind myself I do not… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
What are the words you do not yet have? What do you need to say? What are the tyrannies you swallow day by day… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
I learned to read from Mrs. Augusta Baker, the children's librarian. ... If that was the only good deed that lady ever did in… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Poetry is not only dream and vision; it is the skeleton architecture of our lives. It lays the foundations for a future of change,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
“I think that in America there are certain kinds of problems and in Russia there are certain kinds of problems, but basically, when you… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
Institutionalized rejection of differences is an absolute necessity in a profit economy which needs outsiders as surplus people. As members of such an economy,… — Audre Lorde Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
