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Excellence is the accumulation of hundreds of minute decisions; it is execution at the most granular level. Once you accept the idea that you should give in to things that make no sense because other people do those things and you want to appear reasonable, you are on a path towards mediocrity.
Eva Moskowitz
You
People
Path
Sense
Mediocrity
Other
Once
Hundreds
Those
Minute
Give
Excellence
No Sense
Idea
Towards
Most
Execution
Make
Accept
Because
Accumulate
Want
Decisions
Should
Reasonable
Appear
Level
Things
America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Paul Tsongas
Hope
Compassion
Valor
Memorial Day
Excellence
America
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Voltaire
Property
Appreciation
Own
Others
Our
Excellence
Make
It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Brad Henry
Our
Striving
Only
Potential
Excellence
Through
Reach
Expectations
Children
Full
Full Potential
Raising
To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Sun Tzu
Victory
Herd
See
Only
Excellence
Within
Common
Ken
Those who have learned to walk on the threshold of the unknown worlds, by means of what are commonly termed par excellence the exact sciences, may then, with the fair white wings of imagination, hope to soar further into the unexplored amidst which we live.
Ada Lovelace
Hope
Walk
Threshold
White
Live
Imagination
Worlds
Unknown
Further
Those
Par
Exact
Wings
Excellence
Termed
Fair
Learned
Sciences
Unexplored
May
Soar
Which
Commonly
Then
Means
Who
Amidst
We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Barack Obama
Time
Spend
Folks
Excellence
Excellent
Idea
Lot
Trying
Internalize
Many
Need
The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.
Bertrand Russell
Mathematics
Man
Sense
Exaltation
Spirit
Touchstone
More
Poetry
Excellence
Delight
Highest
True
Surely
True Spirit
Than
Being
Which
Found
Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.
Janet Jackson
Work
Dreams
Reality
Work Hard
Vision
Become
Society
Our
Possess
Characterized
Members
Willingness
Excellence
Equal
Hard
Belief
Right
Desire
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Jerry Moran
Excellence
Perfection
End
End Product
Process
Product
Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Rick Pitino
You
Quality
Unlimited
Ability
Excellence
Offer
Improve
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Thomas Aquinas
Work
Lie
Will
Excellence
He
Does
Test
Goes
Artist
Which
Produces
Character is just another word for having a perfectly disciplined and educated will. A person can make his own character by blending these elements with an intense desire to achieve excellence. Everyone is different in what I will call magnitude, but the capacity to achieve character is still the same.
Vince Lombardi
Character
Achieve
Word
Will
Own
Everyone
Having
Excellence
Magnitude
Perfectly
Blending
Make
Call
Another
Disciplined
Still
Educated
His
Person
Intense
Same
Intense Desire
Just
Different
Capacity
Elements
Desire
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.
Warren Bennis
Teacher
Better
Mediocrity
Everywhere
Insights
Only
Excellence
Studying
Exemplary
Truly
Than
Ordinary
Lessons
Original
Found
Profound
The companies that survive longest are the one's that work out what they uniquely can give to the world not just growth or money but their excellence, their respect for others, or their ability to make people happy. Some call those things a soul.
Charles Handy
Work
Respect
Soul
Happy
People
World
Money
Others
Respect For Others
Those
Out
Ability
Some
Give
Excellence
Longest
Make
Call
Survive
Just
Work Out
Companies
Uniquely
Growth
Things
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
David Starr Jordan
World
Living
Excellence
Real
Which
Separated
Right
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
George Eliot
Positive
Life
Spiritual
World
Wealth
About
Excellence
Generally
Encourages
Shows
When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.
Maximillian Degenerez
You
Mediocrity
Back
Excellence
Had
Go
Taste
Cannot
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Oprah Winfrey
Life
Best
Racism
My Life
Believe
Sexism
Deterrent
Excellence
Operate
How
Raised
In my judgment, physical fitness is basic to all forms of excellence and to a strong, confident nation.
Robert Kennedy
Fitness
Strong
Physical Fitness
Judgment
Nation
Physical
Excellence
Confident
Forms
Basic
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
William Makepeace Thackeray
Appreciation
Excellence
Next
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Charles Kendall Adams
Success
Distinction
Above
Determines
Eminent
Excellence
Student
Attains
Simply
Over
Him
Doing
Ultimate
Greatness
Very
Required
Ever
Amount
It's the job of any business owner to be clear about the company's nonnegotiable core values. They're the riverbanks that help guide us as we refine and improve on performance and excellence. A lack of riverbanks creates estuaries and cloudy waters that are confusing to navigate. I want a crystal-clear, swiftly flowing stream.
Danny Meyer
Business
Stream
Job
Values
Waters
Guide
About
Excellence
Clear
Performance
Refine
Improve
Owner
Any
Lack
Want
Cloudy
Us
Confusing
Creates
Business Owner
Help
Navigate
Swiftly
Company
Flowing
Core
Core Values
Excellence always sells.
Earl Nightingale
Excellence
Always
Sells
Badness you can get easily, in quantity; the road is smooth, and it lies close by, But in front of excellence the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.
Hesiod
You
Long
Way
Easily
Immortal
Lies
Excellence
Steep
Put
Road
Badness
Quantity
Smooth
Close
Get
Gods
Front
Sweat
When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Joe Paterno
Confidence
Reality
Excellence
Individual
Performance
Becomes
Learns
Team
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