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Knowledge sees continuity, while unplanned creation leaps. It's through the guise of the unknown that passion rapids into fluent artistry.
Author:
Maeve Grey
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Every language i acquire writes a fresh narrative within me, challenging stereotypes while stitching bonds between worlds interspersed with frustration, discovery, and growth.
Author:
Elara Mandan
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The only time to be modest is when complimenting others because that ain't unprofessionalism, that's basic decency.
Author:
George Shaunghoton
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The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Be so good they can't ignore you
Author:
Steve Martin
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In the realm of evaluation, excellence is not just a goal; it is a non-negotiable standard we must diligently strive for.
Author:
Rachel Johnson
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Success is not about taking shortcuts, but rather creating lasting foundations for growth and excellence.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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A champion is not defined by their wins, but by how they can recover when they fall.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Success is not about winning all the time, but never giving up.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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Success is not just about being the best at what you do, but also about becoming better every day.
Author:
Serena Williams
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The only way to achieve greatness is to wholeheartedly pursue excellence in everything you do.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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The only way to achieve greatness is to put your heart and soul into everything you do, for mediocrity has no place in a world hungry for excellence.
Author:
Emily Harris
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Greatness is not measured by what a man accomplishes, but by the legacy he leaves behind.
Author:
Quincy Jones
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Success is not defined by how much you do, but by how well you do it.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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In this life, one must always strive for excellence, even in the face of hardship.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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Success is not achieved by one's talent alone, but by the relentless pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Michael Jordan
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Don't chase success, pursue excellence - it will lead to success
Author:
Amitabh Bachchan
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Don't chase success, chase excellence - Success will follow you
Author:
Ranveer Singh
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Do not be afraid to challenge the status quo; great minds have never settled for mediocrity.
Author:
Samantha Wright
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Don't be afraid to stand out in a world full of copies; authenticity is your greatest superpower.
Author:
Mia Williams
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Success is not just about achieving excellence, but also showing compassion along the journey.
Author:
Jenna Lee
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Success is not about being the best, but giving your best in everything you do.
Author:
Rachel Adams
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The sparks of creativity ignite the flames of greatness within
Author:
Sophia Rodriguez
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In a sea of ordinary, strive to be extraordinary.
Author:
Amelia Rodriguez
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The true key to success is consistency in the pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Rachel Johnson
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Success is not achieved by perfection, but by perseverance in the pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Sophia Smith
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Always strive for greatness beyond expectations; mediocrity is never an option.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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In the sea of mediocrity, be the beacon of excellence.
Author:
Alexandra Carter
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Success is not found in perfection, but in the courage to persistently strive towards excellence.
Author:
Sofia Lopez
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Success is not about achieving greatness, but about persistently committing to excellence along the journey.
Author:
Sophia Anderson
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Do not settle for mediocrity when excellence is within reach.
Author:
Savannah Smith
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Success is the culmination of passion, perseverance, and purpose.
Author:
Jenna Lee
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Creativity is the fuel that ignites the fire of innovation within us.
Author:
Samantha Evans
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The key to success is consistency in the pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Alex Miller
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Success is not about being the best, but about being your personal best.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Challenge yourself to create the extraordinary, for mediocrity has no lasting power.
Author:
Olivia Smith
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Success is not just about being the best, but also about consistently giving your best.
Author:
Sarah Parker
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In the sea of mediocrity, dare to be an island of excellence.
Author:
Gabrielle Jameson
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Success is not about being the best, it's about always giving your best.
Author:
Maya Johnson
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The secret to success is found in the pursuit of excellence, not perfection.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Be fearful of mediocrity, for it is the enemy of greatness.
Author:
Samantha Wright
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Success is not achieved by seeking mediocrity; greatness requires a relentless pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Emma Johnson
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Success is not about being the best, but rather about continuing to strive for excellence in the face of adversity.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Let your actions be fueled by passion, guided by wisdom, and remembered for excellence.
Author:
Sophia Lopez
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The key to success is choosing excellence over mediocrity every single day.
Author:
Michelle Rodriguez
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We become what we repeatedly do, so strive for excellence in all that you do.
Author:
Jane Smith
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Embrace the chaos and dance in the storm, for adversity is but a pathway to greatness.
Author:
Sasha Williams
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Do everything with passion or not at all.
Author:
Sophia Hoffman
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Success is not achieving perfection, but progressing towards excellence.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Success is not about being perfect, it's about being persistent in the pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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The only way to escape mediocrity is through commitment to excellence
Author:
Sarah Johnson
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Success is not about reaching the destination, but embracing the journey with excellence and resilience.
Author:
Sophia Martinez
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Don't chase success, let it find you on the path of excellence.
Author:
Morgan Parker
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The only way to achieve greatness is to relentlessly pursue excellence every day.
Author:
Samantha White
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When you stop chasing success and start pursuing excellence, greatness will follow.
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Success is fulfilling potential. It's not just achieving goals, but surpassing them with excellence.
Author:
Rachel Smith
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Success is not about being perfect, but about being relentless in the pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Gabrielle Hernandez
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The key to success is found in the pursuit of excellence, not in the fear of failure.
Author:
Samantha Reynolds
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In the quest for greatness, passion will always outshine talent.
Author:
Cassandra Chen
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Success is not about being perfect, it's about constantly striving to be better than yesterday.
Author:
Amelia Davis
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Success is not about achieving perfection, but consistently striving for improvement.
Author:
Maya Garcia
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Strive for excellence in all that you do, for greatness lies within every act of dedication.
Author:
Samantha Parker
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Adversity is the fuel for greatness, with persistence as the driving force.
Author:
Samantha Hill
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In the sea of mediocrity, strive to be a wave of excellence.
Author:
Samantha Roberts
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Success is not about being the best, but giving your best every day.
Author:
Sophia Adams
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Success is not about being the best, but doing your best.
Author:
Samantha Jones
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Strive for excellence, even in the smallest of details, for it is in the minutiae where greatness is forged.
Author:
Julia Santos
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There are no shortcuts in the pursuit of excellence, only detours that test our dedication.
Author:
Hannah Smith
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In the pursuit of excellence, there is no room for mediocrity.
Author:
Sophia Richards
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Success is not about being the best but giving your best consistently.
Author:
Sarah Lee
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Success is fueled by a relentless pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Maya Davis
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Do not be afraid to stand out, for in a sea of similarity lies true excellence.
Author:
Sophia Chang
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Greatness lies not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Author:
John Doe
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Success doesn't come from always getting it right, but from not being afraid to try.
Author:
Maya Angelou
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Success is not about being the best, but giving your best in all that you do
Author:
Samantha Smith
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Success is not achieved by luck, but rather it is a result of grit, determination, and a relentless pursuit of excellence.
Author:
Jasmine Stevens
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In the pursuit of excellence, be willing to embrace change and challenge traditional thinking.
Author:
Sophia Townsend
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Success is not about being the best, but about always getting better.
Author:
Samantha Lee
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Success is not determined by the height of the pedestal, but by the weight of the foundation on which it stands.
Author:
Samantha Brooks
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Success is not about being the best, it's about giving your best.
Author:
Stephanie Johnson
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In a sea of average, strive to be extraordinary.
Author:
Samantha Johnson
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Success is not defined by the positions you hold, but by the values you uphold.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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The only way to truly stand out is to embrace your uniqueness and shine brightly in a world full of conformity.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Do not be afraid to stand out, for it is in our uniqueness that we shine brightest.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Success is not about being the best. It's about being your best.
Author:
Regina King
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Don't chase success, chase excellence. Let success follow you like a shadow.
Author:
Ravi Singh
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Greatness is not in doing extraordinary things, but in doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Author:
John Doe
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Dare to be different, for conformity never breeds greatness.
Author:
Jane Doe
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Do not be afraid to stand out, for uniqueness is where true greatness resides.
Author:
Serena Williams
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Success is not defined by how fast you climb the corporate ladder, but by how true you stay to your values along the way.
Author:
Michelle Obama
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Excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism.
Author:
Oprah Winfrey
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If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Author:
Thomas Watson
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Author:
Booker Washington
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The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value.
Author:
Charles Warner
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By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Author:
Voltaire
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Supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.
Author:
Sun Tzu
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America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.
Author:
Paul Tsongas
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Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Author:
William Thackeray
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As a preacher of the Gospel, our late venerable Bishop must have been heard, to form an adequate conception of his superior excellence and commanding eloquence.
Author:
John Strachan
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
Author:
J. Stedman
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Poetry is an art, and chief of the fine art; the easiest to dabble in, the hardest in which to reach true excellence.
Author:
Edmund Stedman
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What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?
Author:
Sophocles
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I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.
Author:
Nina Simone
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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.
Author:
Bertrand Russell
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Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.
Author:
Pat Riley
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All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.
Author:
Samuel Richardson
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A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Author:
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
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The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.
Author:
Protagoras
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Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.
Author:
Victoria Principal
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I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.
Author:
Richard Price
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If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.
Author:
Colin Powell
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If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
Author:
William Pollard
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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
Author:
Rick Pitino
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Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
Author:
Tom Peters
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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Author:
Octavio Paz
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Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.
Author:
Joe Paterno
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Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.
Author:
Walter Pater
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The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.
Author:
Alan Parsons
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
Author:
David Ogilvy
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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.
Author:
Barack Obama
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What starts the process, really, are laughs and slights and snubs when you are a kid. If your anger is deep enough and strong enough, you learn that you can change those attitudes by excellence, personal gut performance.
Author:
Richard Nixon
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Excellence always sells.
Author:
Earl Nightingale
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Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
Author:
Timothy Murphy
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Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
Author:
Jerry Moran
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Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
Author:
Paul Meyer
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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence.
Author:
John Metcalf
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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.
Author:
Herman Melville
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Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude.
Author:
Ralph Marston
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In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.
Author:
Kenny Marchant
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In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
Author:
Henry Longfellow
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Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
Author:
Vince Lombardi
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Wherever modern translations of marked excellence were already in existence efforts were made to secure them for the Library, but in a number of instances copyright could not be obtained.
Author:
James Loeb
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The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
Author:
Max Lerner
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I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
Author:
Greg LeMond
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Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.
Author:
Lactantius
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But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.
Author:
Lactantius
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All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
Author:
Martin King, Jr.
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There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
Author:
David Jordan
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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.
Author:
Howard Jones
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The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.
Author:
Lyndon Johnson
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Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.
Author:
Steve Jobs
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The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.
Author:
John Hutton
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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.
Author:
Hesiod
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But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
Author:
Andy Hertzfeld
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It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.
Author:
Brad Henry
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But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
Author:
Dave Heineman
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We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.
Author:
William Hazlitt
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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.
Author:
Charles Handy
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No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.
Author:
David Halberstam
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Guided serendipity paints our journeys not on predictability's plains, but fills the randomness with straying brushstrokes, contrasting expectation and illumination.
Author:
Clara Henning
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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Author:
Oliver Goldsmith
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Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
Author:
Jose Gasset
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Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Author:
John Gardner
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Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
Author:
John Gardner
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The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.
Author:
John Gardner
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I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
Author:
Michael Fox
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Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days.
Author:
Ted Engstrom
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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.
Author:
Edsger Dijkstra
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When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Author:
Denis Diderot
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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.
Author:
James Daly
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We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.
Author:
Mike Curb
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I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge.
Author:
Rita Coolidge
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The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Author:
Confucius
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Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.
Author:
Edwin Cole
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Delaware State has established itself as an institution of excellence in its own right and attracts a diversity of students from various races, socio-economic status and locations.
Author:
Michael Castle
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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.
Author:
Alex Campbell
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It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.
Author:
Steve Buyer
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When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.
Author:
Jean Bruyere
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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves.
Author:
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
Author:
Edward Bok
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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.
Author:
Warren Bennis
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We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
Author:
Henry Beecher
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There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence.
Author:
Philip Bailey
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Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Author:
Walter Bagehot
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Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon.
Author:
Irving Babbitt
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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.
Author:
Aristotle
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Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.
Author:
Aristotle
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Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
Author:
Aristotle
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Author:
Aristotle
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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.
Author:
Aristotle
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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.
Author:
Thomas Aquinas
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Author:
Mario Andretti
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The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous.
Author:
Shana Alexander
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What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts.
Author:
Jane Alexander
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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.
Author:
Charles Adams
