Excellence Quotes - Page 27

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.

To enjoy enduring success we should travel a little in advance of the world.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

Connfidence, excellence becomes a reality.

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Excellence is never an accident.

People in theatre work harder than anyone in the world - as far as I'm concerned - as far as sheer output of energy and the rigor and excellence that they maintain doing something every day, or twice a day.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

When Americans decry our politicians, we must remember that ultimately, politicians reflect us. When we demand more than mediocrity - and the passing comforts it bestows - we will certainly attain it. One hopes and prays it doesn't take an historic crisis for us to demand and reward excellence in public service.

I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

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.

Judicial excellence requires candor before confirmation. We are being asked to give the nominee enormous power.

That said, there are a few clear factors that determine the potential of a university to reach the highest levels of excellence. In the case of Harvard University, it was true that by the time of its tercentenary (300th anniversary of its founding) in 1936, Harvard had already achieved a reputation as a world-class institution. Harvard did not have the stature that it does today.

Certainly, envy is no monopoly of the poor; it makes itself felt in all sections of society; it haunts the court, the library, the barrack-room, even the sanctuary; it is provoked in some unhappy souls by the near neighbourhood of any superior rank or excellence whatever.

the excellence of the mental entertainment consists less in the subject than in the author's skill in well dressing it up.

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.