#excellence

She looks honestly upset, but then, I’ve learned that I can’t read her. The problem with a really excellent liar is that you have to just assume they’re always lying. ↗

— Holly Black

#lying #excellence

Euthanasia" is an excellent and comforting word! I am grateful to whoever invented it. ↗

— Bram Stoker

#excellence

I never forget,” Myrnin said in a choked whisper. “Certainly not with your nails in my throat. They’re quite an excellent mnemonic device. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#myrnin #excellence

Happiness, Success, Excellence: They are not something you get for knowing the path; they are something you experience by walking it. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#experience #happiness #life #path #success

If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well. ↗

— Martin Luther King Jr.

#inspirational #inspirational

To fight and conquer in all our battles is not supreme excellence; supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#breaking #conquer #consists #enemy #excellence

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

#distance #excellence #judge #peak #people

Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it. ↗

— Tim Cook

#change #culture #excellence #going #i

I think the challenges for me was to go into the studio with these incredible jazz players and come up to their level of excellence. That's always a challenge. ↗

— Rita Coolidge

#challenge #challenges #come #excellence #go

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property. ↗

— Voltaire

#excellence #make #others #our #own