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The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.
I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.
There is no real excellence in all of this world which can be separated from right living.
This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.
Excellence encourages one about life generally; it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.
Celebrate what you've accomplished, but raise the bar a little higher each time you succeed.
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
Excellence in our society is less a product of conflict and hostility than of collaboration.
Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.
If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.
Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.
That's just how I live my life. That's how I was raised: to demand excellence out of myself.
Pride is a personal commitment. It is an attitude which separates excellence from mediocrity.
a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.
Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Like anybody else that goes and does their job, there's a way to do your job with excellence.
I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.
The Age of Aquarius is the age of excellence in which personal purity shall absolutely matter.
Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.
Happiness is the possession of the excellence proper to us, and of the power subservient to it.
I've spent my life pursing excellence as an artist, which is what I always wanted to do anyhow.
In the imagination, Harlem will always be the spiritual capital of black excellence in America.
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.
Excellence is a high performance over a long period of time. That's what I've tried to focus on.
We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.
But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.
I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.
Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.
Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude
Screw-ups are the mark of excellence.
Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
There is always a best way of doing everything.
Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful
You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.
Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.
Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.
By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.
Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.
Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.
Be great in act, as you have been in thought.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.
Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.
At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?
The excellency of every art is its intensity, capable of making all disagreeable evaporate.
Excellence is a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.