#excellence

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself. ↗

— Dawn Fraser

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Do ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— Gregg Harris

#inspirational #success #inspirational

Consider ye the seed from which ye sprang; Ye were not made to live like unto brutes But for pursuit of virtue and of knowledge. ↗

— Dante Alighieri

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Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land. ↗

— Herman Melville

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I wanted the press to become something of a movement. Not a movement committed to a particular "ism," but a gathering together of writers with an aesthetic approach to literature and with a lust for excellence. ↗

— John Metcalf

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

— David Ogilvy

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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

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If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time. ↗

— Octavio Paz

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It is the characteristic excellence of the strong man that he can bring momentous issues to the fore and make a decision about them. The weak are always forced to decide between alternatives they have not chosen themselves. ↗

— Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer. ↗

— Rick Pitino

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