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Excellence Quotes
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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"When you are aspiring to the highest place, it is honorable to reach the second or even the third rank."
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"I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection."
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"We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent."
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"Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well."
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"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
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"A great writer creates a world of his own and his readers are proud to live in it. A lesser writer may entice them in for a moment, but soon he will watch them filing out."
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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"Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!"
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"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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"Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection."
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"Michael was a rare breed. There's no question about that. He did things that a lot of players could never do, and still to this day players can't do those things, so the honors that he's had are definitely deserved."
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"Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days."
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"By doing ordinary actions efficiently you will become the best among ordinary, but you will not be an extraordinary."
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"Excellence has a loud mouth, let it speak on your behalf."
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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
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"To be a champion, compete; to be a great champion, compete with the best; but to be the greatest champion, compete with yourself."
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"Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence."
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"Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process."
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"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
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"The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline."
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"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."
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"Strive for excellence in all that you do; mediocrity has no place in the path to greatness."
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"The noblest search is the search for excellence."
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"Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable."
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"If you seek small things to do, and do them well, great things will seek you, and demand to be performed."
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"How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it."
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"No one makes it big without discipline."
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"And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don't just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn't do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well."
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"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
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"Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary."
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"I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis."
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"We shouldn't accept mediocrity as the best a politician can do."
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"Being mindful of your body movement, facial expressions, voice tone, gestures, orientation, postures, and touch will help you project personal excellence for transforming your communications with others."
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"Excellence is not a history, but a habit."
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"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."
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"Excellent is prasie worthy."
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"Don't embrace mediocrity, its main charm is to make you fall in love with failure. Speed off - Excellence awaits you at the end of your journey!"
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"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
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"Things that are truly great need nothing from me, and to somehow think that they do speaks to my utter lack of greatness."
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"In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman."
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"The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism."
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"Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel."
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"Excellence is not an event but a habit."
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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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"The greatest excuse you must have is the excuse to do your best to the very best and in a distinctive manner."
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