#ellen

jan was an excellent fuck...she had a tight pussy and she took it like it was a knife that was killing her. ↗

— Charles Bukowski

#excellence

Do you know how fast you were going?" Fang looked at the speedometer..."No," he said truthfully. I tagged you at seventy miles per hour,"she said, pulling out a clipboard. I let out an impressed whistle. "Excellent! I never thought we'd be that fast." Fang shot me a look and I put my hand over my mouth. ↗

— James Patterson

#excellence

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#excellence

and another claimed it was inherited through a parent who was a carrier of the defective gene. I had always assumed the latter was the case with Claire. After all, surely a child who grew out of grief would be born with a heavy heart. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#change

Grandfather used to say that when a woman got ready to fall in love the man didn't matter, because she could drape her feeling over a scarecrow and pretend he was handsome... ↗

— Ellen Glasgow

#ellen-glasgow #love

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial. ↗

— Criss Jami

#aristotle #awesomeness #consistency #excellence #habit

Life is either an adventure or nothing at all. To turn our faces Toward change and behave as free spirits is strength, undefeated. ↗

— Hellen Keller

#hope #inspirational #life #change

I whisper and you close your eyes. I speak and you turn away. If I scream, will you finally hear me beg you to hold me close to you, promise you'll never let go? ↗

— Ellen Hopkins

#inspirational-quotes #tricks #inspirational

The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence. ↗

— Confucius

#desire #door #excellence #full #keys

Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none. ↗

— Robert A. Heinlein

#excellence #inspirational #life #philosophy #truth