#excell

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#dream #either #excellence #happiness #into

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#self-esteem #excellence

These are excellent lessons to break him, and make him light in hand: but nothing puts a horse so much upon his haunches, and consequently makes him so light in hand, as my new method of the pillar. ↗

— William Cavendish

#consequently #excellent #hand #haunches #him

It is a misfortune that necessity has induced men to accord greater license to this formidable engine, in order to obtain liberty, than can be borne with less important objects in view; for the press, like fire, is an excellent servant, but a terrible master. ↗

— James F. Cooper

#borne #engine #excellent #fire #formidable

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

#artist #excellence #mediocrity #writer #writing

Communicating with the federal government is like talking to a computer that's crashing. ↗

— Steve Kluger

#my-most-excellent-year #politics #communication

You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter the game. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#action #believe #believe-and-achieve #bench #dress

The question is not "can you wear your father's shoes?". The question is "can you walk in your father's shoes?". It is one thing having a mentor and it is another thing to become like your mentor. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#apprentice #copy #excel #excellence #extra