Excellence Quotes

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Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers such as Garfield… — Dave Barry
There's a very famous Miyamoto Musashi quote. "Once you understand the way broadly, you can see it in all things." The idea is once you… — Joe Rogan
I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence — Miguel Torres
I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons, but also in… — Jonathan Gottschall
Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America. — Amy Chua
Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the… — Ihab Hassan
I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way… — J. R. D. Tata
Everything you say; every thought you entertain; and everything you do has a direction, which serves as an advance or a retreat in respect to… — Gary Ryan
A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results. — Orrin Woodward
Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence. — Alberto Manguel
Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in… — William Hazlitt
And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence. — John Dryden
the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up. — Henry Fielding
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. — Michael J. Fox
Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. — John W. Gardner
The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither… — John W. Gardner
An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. — Mahatma Gandhi
Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. — John W. Gardner
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies… — John W. Gardner

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