#cell

People don't realize that I'm really funny and I'm an excellent bridge player. ↗

— Sheryl Crow

#excellent #funny #i #people #player

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. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#competitive #concept #days #excellence #explicitly

The first time I read an excellent work, it is to me just as if I gained a new friend; and when I read over a book I have perused before, it resembles the meeting of an old one. ↗

— George Gissing

#book #excellent #first #first time #friend

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#business #careful #confuse #excellence #god

Never allow your desires to lead you away from God; allow nothing else to control you other than God and His Word. No matter what you see or pass through, don’t allow them to define you. ↗

— Jaachynma N.E. Agu

#excellence #higher-living #success #beauty

I think that we're foolhardy to not be engaging in federal funding of stem-cell research in the most aggressive way we possibly can. ↗

— Elizabeth Edwards

#cell research #engaging #federal #federal funding #foolhardy

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. ↗

— John Strachan

#been #bishop #commanding #conception #eloquence

I support stem cell research, including embryonic stem cell research. ↗

— Bob Ehrlich

#cell research #embryonic #embryonic stem cell #embryonic stem cell research #i

Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively. ↗

— Socrates

#excellence #plato #socrates #trial #wealth

When people ask me what I do, strangers on a plane, perhaps, I tell them that I think. Thinking is excellent exercise, as much as swimming or jogging. ↗

— Tom Glazer

#excellent #exercise #i #i do #i think