#outstanding

Lots of people can write a good first page but to sustain it, that's my litmus test. If I flip to the middle of the book and there's a piece of dialogue that's just outstanding, or a description, then I'll flip back to the first page and start it. ↗

— Carl Hiaasen

#book #description #dialogue #first #flip

The outstanding people realized that the job involved more than just writing a good strategic plan. It was also important that top management should understand the plan and be prepared to adopt it. ↗

— David C. McClelland

#also #be prepared #good #important #involved

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness. ↗

— John McGraw

#club #good #greatness #once #outstanding

I listened to Kelley's record with pleasure. Great to hear real music with respect for the righteous roots. Her singing is outstanding - no frills, down to the bone and intense. ↗

— Jerry Wexler

#down #great #hear #her #i

People of mediocre ability sometimes achieve outstanding success because they don't know when to quit. Most men succeed because they are determined to. ↗

— George Allen, Sr.

#achieve #because #determined #know #mediocre

The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the outstanding event of the last decade. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

#authority #day #decade #defiance #established

New York is a passionate city. They want a winner. They deserve a winner. I think we did an outstanding job of bringing it back. ↗

— Patrick Ewing

#bringing #city #deserve #did #i

I was not an outstanding student. I did a reasonable amount of work. I got generally good - pretty good grades, but I was not that passionate about getting straight A's. ↗

— Steve Case

#amount #did #generally #getting #good

I can tell you that the Canadian intelligence and law enforcement agencies have been providing outstanding co-operation with our intelligence and law enforcement agencies as we work together to track down terrorists here in North America and put them out of commission. ↗

— Paul Cellucci

#america #been #canadian #co-operation #commission

I don't know what singers feel like when they make a song and people clap along and love it, but when people walk up to me and say the food was outstanding, that's what it is all about. I cook because I like to make people happy. ↗

— Guy Fieri

#along #because #clap #cook #feel