#excel

People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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I want people to be inspired that I've always strived for excellence and I've always gone beyond what anybody ever thought I could do, what I thought I myself could do. And I've allowed myself to be inspired, kept my eyes open and my senses open to inspiration around me. ↗

— Clara Hughes

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He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance. ↗

— David Hume

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Don't use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend. ↗

— John Hutton

#best #best way #both #businesses #civil

What we do is look for high standards of excellence in the arts. ↗

— Jane Alexander

#excellence #high #high standards #look #standards

The sad truth is that excellence makes people nervous. ↗

— Shana Alexander

#makes #nervous #people #sad #sad truth

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

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

— Liberty Hyde Bailey

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