#ellen

An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. ↗

— Ada Louise Huxtable

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We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die, you know? So this is what we've chosen to do with our life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#brief #chance #chosen #die #every

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. ↗

— Howard Mumford Jones

#american writer #asked #celebration #died #emerson

To do justice to a lifelong dream of being a writer, I must give it the intense concentration and focus I gave to track. To do both with excellence is not possible. It is with a sense of sadness and joyous anticipation that I leave track and move on. ↗

— Florence Griffith Joyner

#being #both #concentration #dream #excellence

When I woke up Sunday morning at the Open and stepped outside and felt the wind and rain in my face, I knew I had an excellent chance to win if I just took my time and trusted myself. ↗

— Tom Kite

#excellent #face #felt #had #i

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally. ↗

— Twyla Tharp

#child #constantly #dedication #excellent #going

The excellence of a gift lies in its appropriateness rather than in its value. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#excellence #gift #lies #rather #than

I met all these important people and did all these stories, but I always had such excellent producers and assistants. I could show up to interview a world leader or a criminal and they would have things so well prepared anyone could have done it. It wasn't about 'me,' it was about 'us.' ↗

— Mike Wallace

#always #anyone #assistants #could #criminal

Everybody is standing, but you must stand out. Everybody is breaking grounds; but you must breakthrough! Everybody scratching it; but you must scratch it hard! Everybody is going, but you must keep going extra miles! Dare to be exceptionally excellent and why not? ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#best #breakthrough #excel #excellent #exceptional

I have been an unabashed fan of NPR for many years, and have stolen untold excellent ideas from its programming. ↗

— Ted Koppel

#excellent #fan #i #ideas #many