Quotes About Exceptionalism

Think back over the history of any sport. Very often there has been one guy who stood out above the superstars - just as (Ray) Guy stands out in punting. It just happens.

Excellence is doing a common thing in an uncommon way.

Being simply "better than average" is not good enough. You have to be head and shoulders above the crowd to win a minus-sum game.

Por que se adaptar quando você nasceu para se destacar?

There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only one you.

Well, one of the most important things for Americans to be reminded of is that a lot of the exceptional nature of our country is founded in Judeo-Christian values that promotes individualism, personal responsibility, a strong work ethic, and a commitment to family, charity.

I want to find the candidates who understand the principles of American exceptionalism and have the character, the courage, and the confidence to actually lead the greatest nation in the world.

Exceptionalism" is a shared self-description of imperial forms and . . . every empire imagines itself an exception.

Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit.

There are no norms. All people are exceptions to a rule that doesn't exist.

People ask me who he reminds me of. The way he's playing, I'd say he doesn't remind me of anybody. I've never seen anybody - running back, quarterback, wide receiver - make the plays that Vince Young made today.

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department.

I belong to that small group of chosen people, who because of their superior knowledge and talents are far above ordinary human rules and limitations. We have advanced beyond such conventional notions as 'good' and 'bad'.

I can't believe that God put us on this earth to be ordinary.

The United States is not unique among nations in forging an origin myth, but most of its citizens believe it to be exceptional among nation-states, and this exceptionalist ideology has been used to justify appropriation of the continent and then domination of the rest of the world.

The United States was founded as a capitalist state and an empire on conquered land, with capital in the form of slaves, hence the term chattel slavery; this was exceptional in the world and has remained exceptional. The capitalist firearms industry was among the first successful modern corporations. Gun proliferation and gun violence today are among its legacies.

the schismatic convulsion that had gripped America following the triumph of the cackling cartoon narcissist, America torn in half, its defining myth of city-on-a-hill exceptionalism lying trampled in the gutters of bigotry and racial and male supremacism, Americans' masks ripped off to reveal the Joker faces beneath.

The lesson of Buffett was: To succeed in a spectacular fashion you had to be spectacularly unusual.

Absolute excellence is rarely to be found in any legislation.

People of uncommon abilities generally fall into eccentricities when their sphere of life is not adequate to their abilities.

Too weird to live, and too rare to die.

It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us.

One's only security in life comes from doing something uncommonly well.

The more we become aware of the enormous pull in man to repeat what he has learned, the greater will be our admiration for those exceptional beings who could break this spell and make a significant advance on which others could build.