Quotes About Exceptionalism

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

You have this special place - America, you want it to remain special, you better find out why it became special.

The conservative version of American exceptionalism has become a password of sorts for candidates who want to prove their credentials to a right-wing America.

Please. She sighed. 'Can't a girl have high standards? I don't want an ordinary boy.

show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually dirty kitchen, and 5 times out of 9 I'll show you an exceptional man. show me a man who lives alone and has a perpetually clean kitchen, and 8 times out of 9 I'll show you a man with detestable spiritual qualities.

If average students are increasingly getting the highest possible grade, how can employers and graduate schools identify the truly exceptional

With this emergence of big data and social mobility, you will, in fact, see the death of 'average,' Instead, you will see the era of you.

It is extremely dangerous to encourage people to see themselves as exceptional, whatever the motivation.

But why diminish your soul being run-of-the-mill at something? Mediocrity: now there is ugliness for you. Mediocrity's a hairball coughed up on the Persian carpet of Creation.

Howard Gardner, in his book "Extraordinary Minds", concluded that exceptional individuals have "a special talent for identifying their own strengths and weaknesses." It's interesting that those with the growth mindset seem to have that talent.

Great abilities are rare, and they are often accompanied by qualities which make the abilities useless to him who has them, and even injurious to society.

People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

pues lo que se puso en cuestión fue precisamente la certeza del destino de grandeza y de la excepcionalidad del país que se había consolidado durante los procesos de constitución del Estado moderno en 1880. En el plano cultural, por el contrario, se registraron respuestas creativas a esos mismos sucesos que signaron la época.

È un bene essere patrioti, sentire di appartenere a una società, a una nazione o a una comunità di fedeli, ma ciò non può giustificare il nazionalismo sciovinista e cieco, l'affermazione dell'eccezione e dell'elezione nazionale e/o religiosa, o ancora l'intransigenza dogmatica di coloro che difendono i propri correligionari in qualsiasi circostanza

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

But the yardstick is not only contrived, it's too short: my consistently perfect scores don't tell them anything, because they have no basis for comparison this far out on the bell curve.

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and they have only themselves to blame for having lost the argument for 'exceptionalism' - and with it the right to 'self-regulation.'

I have two younger brothers, and I know my parents have spoken to them about driving and interacting with police. They didn't have those conversations with me, but they did have conversations about being exceptional black people.

From the naturalistic point of view, all men are equal. There are only two exceptions to this rule of naturalistic equality: geniuses and idiots.

There are no men like me. There's only me

If you're not being criticized, you're probably not doing anything exceptional.

While she was exceptional, I was average, a man whose major accomplishment in life was to love her without reservation, and that will never change.

He is, or has been, in many ways a great man. But for this very reason he is odd. It is only petty men who seem normal.

Overcome the notion that we must be regular; it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.