#ellen

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

My undergraduate education, at the City College in New York, was made possible only by the existence of that excellent free institution and the financial sacrifices of my parents. ↗

— Kenneth Joseph Arrow

#college #education #excellent #existence #financial

I think Ian McKellen made it all happen, because he used to throw dinner parties and invite everyone over. ↗

— Shawn Ashmore

#dinner #dinner parties #everyone #happen #i

That which has not a real excellency and value in it self, entertains no longer than the giddy Humour which recommended it to us holds. ↗

— Mary Astell

#giddy #holds #humour #longer #real

Yet Aristotle's excellence of substance, so far from being associated with the grand style, is associated with something that at times comes perilously near jargon. ↗

— Irving Babbitt

#associated #being #comes #excellence #far

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. ↗

— Francis Bacon

#excellent #hath #proportion #some #strangeness

There is no excellence without labor. One cannot dream oneself into either usefulness or happiness. ↗

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

#dream #either #excellence #happiness #into

Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

#common people #excellent #keeping #people #quiet

Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary. ↗

— Warren G. Bennis

#better #everywhere #excellence #exemplary #found

People simply feel better about themselves when they’re good at something. ↗

— Stephen R. Covey

#self-esteem #excellence