#ellen

I consider myself an excellent candidate... because I care. ↗

— Vincent Frank

#candidate #care #consider #excellent #i

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

— Dawn Fraser

#excellence #exists #itself #life #maybe

I've been grateful enough, smart enough to take the work with Ian McKellen in Gods And Monsters. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#enough #gods #grateful #i #ian

Ian McKellen is brilliant with research. I paid really close attention to the sources he goes to. He's a very, very intelligent man. ↗

— Brendan Fraser

#brilliant #close #close attention #goes #i

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#activity #because #exalted #excellence #good

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#excellence #extraordinarily #ordinary #ordinary things #things

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#doing #excellence #i #i am #kind

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#every #excellence #free #free man #goal

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#few #greatness #people #some #some people

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#excellence #himself #man #means #more