#ellen

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. ↗

— David Ogilvy

#excellence #less #more #profitable #pursuit

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. ↗

— Walter Pater

#beauty #been #between #discriminate #discussions

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. ↗

— William Pollard

#listen #people #platform #speak #want

Not only is yoga excellent for flexibility, but it is also a great tool for longevity and injury prevention, as it allows for internal body awareness. ↗

— Kyle Shewfelt

#also #awareness #body #excellent #flexibility

These happy endings all express the weak and sly promise that the world is not rotten and out of joint but meaningful and ultimately in excellent condition. ↗

— Douglas Sirk

#endings #excellent #express #happy #joint

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#difficult #excellent #rare #things

How would it be possible if salvation were ready to our hand, and could without great labor be found, that it should be by almost all men neglected? But all things excellent are as difficult as they are rare. ↗

— Baruch Spinoza

#almost #could #difficult #excellent #found

Being closer to the genesis of this whole period, it captured the importance of the concept of making contact and accurately depicted the paranoia of the time. It's an excellent film. ↗

— Dwight Schultz

#being #captured #closer #concept #contact

Next to excellence is the appreciation of it. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#excellence #next

Just because you didn't start out perfect doesn't mean you can't have an excellent result in the end. ↗

— Debi Thomas

#end #excellent #in the end #just #just because