Quotes About Exceptional

Always remember that you are absolutely unique. Just like everyone else.

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

Last time I checked, there is no 'Hall of Average.'

It's the first time it's happened to me and maybe the last. It's a strange sensation, not normal for me. I can't remember scoring three goals, even when I was a kid.

I had a great and unshakable love of her. I don't think anyone else did. And one thing that endeared her to me always was that she never said anything ordinary.

Out of a human population on earth of four and a half billion, perhaps twenty people can write a book in a year. Some people lift cars, too. Some people enter week-long sled-dog races, go over Niagara Falls in a barrel, fly planes through the Arc de Triomphe. Some people feel no pain in childbirth. Some people eat cars. There is no call to take human extremes as norms.

Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

We're too busy being special.

Face it, Tally-wa, you're Special.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can't help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it.

We choose not to be remarkable because we're worried about criticism.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

Whatever the status quo is, changing it gives you the opportunity to be remarkable.

You can't win by being more average than average.

Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow.

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers. Am

Average Is for Losers

Organizing around the average, then, is too expensive. Organizing around average means that the organization has exchanged the high productivity of exceptional performance for the ease and security of an endless parade of average performers. The

In a free market, we reward the exceptional. In school, we tell kids that once something gets too hard, move on and focus on the next thing. The low-hanging fruit is there to be taken; no sense wasting time climbing the tree.

Organizing around average means that the organization has exchanged the high productivity of exceptional performance for the ease and security of an endless parade of average performers.