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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Nature
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- Nov 07, 2020
What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.
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- Nov 07, 2020
You need a commitment which is long term and a commitment to leadership, because that's the only way you build excellence.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
- Opposites
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my judgment, excellence and wealth are direct opposites, since when the one shrinks, the other grows, and when one grows, the other shrinks.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
Engel & Voelkers has a long-standing reputation for providing excellence to a demanding clientele. Now we provide even more by offering our technologically-savvy customers the most up-to-the-minute data on homes, from listing prices to photos - all at their fingertips.
- Measure
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.
- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think of digital as a means to an end: How do I service and get more loyal customers, how do I achieve operational excellence, and how do I change my culture?
- Integrity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Our soldiers, sailors, airmen, Marines and Coast Guardsmen volunteer to protect and defend this country and all its citizens, and do so with honor, integrity and excellence. Our nation continually asks them to do more and more, with less and less.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
- America
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- Nov 07, 2020
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.
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- Nov 07, 2020