#excel

Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth. ↗

— James Patterson

#excellence

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#excellence

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

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. ↗

— Confucius

#desire #door #excellence #full #keys

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#excellence #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth

None of us will ever accomplish anything excellent or commanding except when he listens to this whisper which is heard by him alone. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

#alone #anything #commanding #ever #excellent

when i run i run fast when i read time whirls past whatever you do today do it in the best possible way ↗

— Cassondra

#inspirational #inspirational

There is no surer mark of the absence of the highest moral and intellectual qualities than a cold reception of excellence. ↗

— Philip James Bailey

#cold #excellence #highest #intellectual #mark

When house and land are gone and spent, then learning is most excellent. ↗

— Samuel Foote

#gone #house #land #learning #most

I married an excellent parent, but I'm not sure that I've made a great parent. ↗

— Danny Bonaduce

#great #i #made #married #parent