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Excellence Quotes
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."
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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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"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 a process that should occupy all our days."
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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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"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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"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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"Negotiation is permissible for mediocrity not for excellence."
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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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"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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"What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts."
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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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"The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying."
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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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"Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism."
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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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"Comfort is a stance of avoidance rather than the pursuit of excellence."
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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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"Next to excellence is the appreciation of it."
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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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"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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"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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"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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"How well you do something determines how well you will be rewarded by it."
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"Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process."
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"Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection."
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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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"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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"Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work."
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"Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do."
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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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"Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence."
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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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"Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach."
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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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"No one makes it big without discipline."
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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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"What does easy or hard have to do with anything? Excellence is your standard."
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"The Olympic Games is a celebration of discipline."
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"Excellence has a loud mouth, let it speak on your behalf."
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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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