#excell

It is something we have always excelled at and prided ourselves at - the excellences of our stage performance. ↗

— James Young

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There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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I would rather excel others in the knowledge of what is excellent than in the extent of my powers and dominion. ↗

— Alexander the Great

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If you truly expect to realize your dreams, abandon the need for blanket approval. If conforming to everyone’s expectations is the number one goal, you have sacrificed your uniqueness, and therefore your excellence. ↗

— Hope Solo

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Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

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There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? ↗

— Thomas Mann

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Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

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When the actions becomes frequent than the words, success becomes heavier than the dreams. Do more, say less. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

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Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books. ↗

— John Lubbock

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After the woman left, Gran, staring out back at the Zebra Forest, said to me, 'I'm a liar, I'll admit. But I pride myself on being a really good liar. That's part of my educational philosophy, too, Annie B. Mark that down. Lesson one: If you're going to do something, make sure to do it with excellence. ↗

— Adina Rishe Gewirtz

#excellence #learning #lying #education