#outstanding

When I was 20, Shostakovich was my favorite composer. I still find his Fifth Symphony wonderful, with its outstanding themes and rhythms. That's the piece that made me want to be a classical composer. ↗

— Dave Brubeck

#composer #favorite #fifth #find #his

Writing headlines is a specialty - there are outstanding writers who will tell you they couldn't write a headline to save their lives. ↗

— Bill Walsh

#headlines #lives #outstanding #save #specialty

I haven't yet figured out how I was made first captain, because I was not an outstanding student. I was an adequate student. ↗

— William Westmoreland

#because #captain #figured #first #haven

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constant #domination #feature #history #life

If you hire only those people you understand, the company will never get people better than you are. Always remember that you often find outstanding people among those you don't particularly like. ↗

— Soichiro Honda

#among #better #company #find #get

I do know there are a lot of people who seem to be in my corner, and that's, of course, wonderful. I'm really more interested in the nomination than in the award, because I think the nomination just puts you within a group of outstanding actors. ↗

— Morgan Freeman

#because #corner #course #group #i

Now there is one outstanding important fact regarding spaceship earth, and that is that no instruction book came with it. ↗

— R. Buckminster Fuller

#came #earth #fact #important #important fact

The Peace Corps is an outstanding organization that promotes peace through helping countless individuals who want to help build a better life for the community in which they serve. ↗

— Solomon Ortiz

#better life #build #community #corps #countless

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#book #description #dialogue #first #flip

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. ↗

— John McGraw

#club #good #greatness #once #outstanding