#surpass

It is commonly said that a teacher fails if he has not been surpassed by his students. There has been no failure on our part in this regard considering how far they have gone. ↗

— Edmond H. Fischer

#commonly #considering #fails #failure #far

Some versions of patriotism come close to the tribal, which we all want to surpass, and some don't. ↗

— Todd Gitlin

#come #patriotism #some #surpass #tribal

Music is not supposed to be nationalist. It is supposed to surpass language barriers. It is about generations communicating with each other. ↗

— Simon LeBon

#barriers #communicating #each #generations #language

Make the workmanship surpass the materials. ↗

— Ovid

#materials #surpass #workmanship

Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. ↗

— Camille Paglia

#awash #bodybuilding #chemistry #defying #mathematics

If somebody has a better idea than me, I'll take it if it surpasses what we have on the page because at the end of the day, it's me that takes the credit anyway! ↗

— Guy Ritchie

#because #better #better idea #credit #day

The pressure of adversity is the most powerful sustainer of accountability. It's as though everything you do is multiplied by 50 in order to surpass those with a head-start. I was never capable of slacking when at the threshold of failure. ↗

— Criss Jami

#adversity #compel #drive #endure #failure

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason. ↗

— Thomas Aquinas

#disclosure #divine #human #reason #salvation

True heroism is remarkably sober, very undramatic. It is not the urge to surpass all others at whatever cost, but the urge to serve others at whatever cost. ↗

— Arthur Ashe

#heroism #others #remarkably #serve #sober

The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being. ↗

— Hans Urs von Balthasar

#beautiful #because #being #call #essences