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Excellence Quotes
On pursuing and recognizing excellence.
These quotes examine excellence as a habit built through commitment rather than a single achievement, tying a genuinely Good life to sustained effort in one's chosen field. Others reflect on how appreciating excellence in others can shape our own standards.
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- Own
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Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
- Poetry
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
- Faith
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Imran never lost faith in us as players, individually and as a team, and that gave us the confidence to win. He was a leader par excellence, and Pakistan have seen none like him.
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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.
- Rest
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Egypt is coming back - is becoming - is going to become, you know, a center of excellence for the region and maybe for the rest of the world.
- Children
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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
- I Am
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I spent many years writing and directing in radio drama, so I am comfortable with an audience or a microphone, but I do worry about the blurring of an author's public persona with the work itself. A good 'performer' can make a mediocre book sound strong, and a shy author can leave listeners missing the excellence of his or her writing.
- Mind
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Wellness seeks more than the absence of illness; it searches for new levels of excellence. Beyond any disease-free neutral point, wellness dedicates its efforts to our total well-being - in body, mind, and spirit.
- Me
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I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
- New
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I associated excellence in writing with New York City.
- Justice
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To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on.
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- Nov 07, 2020