#surpassed

I had found English audiences highly satisfactory. They are the best listeners in the world. Perhaps the music-lovers of some of our larger cities equal the English, but I do not believe they can be surpassed in that respect. ↗

— John Philip Sousa

#believe #best #cities #english #equal

The Internet will win because it is relentless. Like a cannibal, it even turns on it own. Though early portals like Prodigy and AOL once benefited from their first-mover status, competitors surpassed them as technology and consumer preferences changed. ↗

— John Sununu

#because #benefited #cannibal #changed #competitors

My talent is such that no undertaking, however vast in size... has ever surpassed my courage. ↗

— Peter Paul Rubens

#ever #however #size #such #surpassed

Being able to fantasize for a couple of days at being a rock singer surpassed most things I've done on stage. ↗

— Gary Cole

#being #couple #days #done #fantasize

What we aspired to in 1998, we have wildly surpassed. And I know we all feel incredibly grateful and lucky this band has been able to have the life that it's had. ↗

— Ben Gibbard

#aspired #band #been #feel #grateful

The Florida in my novels is not as seedy as the real Florida. It's hard to stay ahead of the curve. Every time I write a scene that I think is the sickest thing I have ever dreamed up, it is surpassed by something that happens in real life. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#curve #dreamed #ever #every #every time

This is going to sound completely absurd, but I do sometimes feel like the enjoyment of an awards ceremony or the pride in the finished article hasn't ever surpassed the joy of doing the work, of making it. The doing it is really the bit I'm there for. ↗

— Chiwetel Ejiofor

#article #awards #bit #ceremony #completely

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

This is not bad, but the pace of globalisation has surpassed the capacity of the system to adjust to new realities of a more interdependent and integrated world. ↗

— Anna Lindh

#bad #capacity #globalisation #integrated #interdependent

I am such a pessimist that every project has surpassed what I envisioned. ↗

— Colin Mochrie

#envisioned #every #i #i am #pessimist