Quotes About Excellence

Kobe was, other than my parents, he was the reason why I played sports. Just his mindset, the Mamba mentality.

My mindset is to stay healthy, continue getting into the ring with the best guys in the world and putting on the best performances.

I lust after iPods or Mini Coopers not because they're unique, but because they've been so artfully made that I couldn't imagine doing it better myself.

I had ministers who were just outstandingly good.

We must shout out from the rooftops that Minneapolis is the best place on Earth.

When you do well at an audition, it is the highest high you can achieve because you just beat yourself. You became whatever it was, for a minute. It's a great feeling when that happens.

When we meet the very best, we have to give up, I thought.

When we meet the very best, we have to give up.

First, You must know that every man cannot be excellent, yet every man may be useful. An iron key may unlock the door with a golden treasure behind it; yes, iron can do some things that gold cannot.

Good, better, best Never let it rest, Till ur good is better And better is best.

Quieres sobresalir en medio de la multitud? Hazlo con tus logros y no usando un traje de payaso, así eso sea lo que usen los amantes de la moda.

To the corruptions of christianity I am indeed opposed; but not to the genuine precepts of Jesus himself. I am a Christian in the only sense in which he wished any one to be; sincerely attached to his doctrines, in preference to all others; ascribing to himself every human excellence, and believing he never claimed any other.

It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

It is as well that the world knows only a fine piece of work and not also its origins, the conditions under which it came into being; for knowledge of the sources of an artist's inspiration would often confuse readers and shock them, and the excellence of the writing would be of no avail.

To find peace in the presence of the faultless is the desire of the one who seeks excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection?

Quien se esfuerza por alcanzar lo excelso, nota el ansia de reposar en lo perfecto

Seguramente conviene que el mundo conozca sólo la obra bella y no sus orígenes, las condiciones que determinaron su aparición, pues el conocimiento de las fuentes en que el poeta bebe su inspiración lo confundiría, lo asustaría a menudo, dañando así el efecto de las cosas excelentes.

Es, sin duda, positivo que el mundo solo conozca la obra bella y no sus orígenes ni las circunstancias que acompañaron su génesis, pues el conocimiento de las fuentes que inspiraron al artista lo confundiría e intimidaría, anulando así los efectos de la excelsitud.

When humility delivers a man from attachment to his own works and his own reputation, he discovers that perfect joy is possible only when we have completely forgotten ourselves. And it is only when we pay no more attention to our own deeds and our own reputation and our own excellence that we are at last completely free to serve God in perfection for His own sake alone.

Too much happiness, too much unhappiness, out of due time, men are thrown off balance. What will they do next? Thought runs wild. No control. They start everything, finish nothing. Here competition begins, here the idea of excellence is born, and robbers appear in the world.

Excellence, here, was in proportion to obscurity: the one who was best was the one who was least observed, least distinguished.

They knew a good building would praise God better than a bad one, even if the bad one were covered all over with official symbols of praise.

Holy-Center-Approaching is soon to be the number one Zonal pastime. Its balmy heyday is nearly on it. Soon more champions, adepts, magicians of all ranks and orders will be in the field than ever before in the history of the game. The sun will rule all enterprise, if it be honest and sporting. The Gauss curve will herniate toward the excellent. And tankers the likes of Närrisch and Slothrop here will have already been weeded out.

Anthropos. That's a Greek word. It means to become the best human you can be.