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Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

The experience of the irrationality of the world has been the driving force of all religious revolution.

Well, I wouldn't say that this experience had any influence on my decision to do this film about Andy, because Andy was apolitical. Andy was never political.

Provided a man is not mad, he can be cured of every folly but vanity; there is no cure for this but experience, if indeed there is any cure for it at all.

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

It is found by experience that admirable laws and right precedents among the good have their origin in the misdeeds of others.

I like the challenge. I like a good, meaty experience for me.

If psychoanalysis clarifies some facts of sexuality, it is not by aiming at them in their own reality, not in biological experience.

The difficulty that contestation must be done in the name of an authority is resolved this: I contest in the name of contestation what experience itself is.

Deadwood was a magical experience. It was an absolute culmination of everything Ive ever wanted to do as an actor as an artist, and I was enormously proud to have been involved with it.

STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films I've seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.

Having your own show, where you're not in trouble all the time, because you're kind of the boss, is a wonderful experience. If I made mistakes everyone was very nice to me.

There's certainly nothing original about the observation that conscious experience poses a hard problem.

Jamie Foley - he's a very different energy to [director] Sam [Taylor-Johnson]. The whole experience was actually quite different.

Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.

Drawing on the experience I have of now directing, to me, my one strength that I know is my ability to communicate with actors and therefore make characters really important.

It has always amazed me how tax cuts don't work until they take effect. Mr. Obama's experience with deferred tax rate increases will be the reverse. The economy will collapse in 2011.

I never went through a biological clock experience. I never even heard it ticking.

The flashbacks are parallel for me. You experience two storylines at the same time, and I'm not switching from one time to another.

But I just know from experience that accent wise, even if you're an accent genius, crossing the Atlantic is the hardest thing in the world either way.