Quotes About Exceptional

Never love anybody who treats you like you're ordinary.

Lincoln was not a type. He stands alone - no ancestors, no fellows, no successors.

To be amazing means you have to do amazing things.

But he learned what he had to, and he changed, and so he made himself exceptional.

I am not plain, or average or - God forbid - vanilla. I am peanut butter rocky road with multicolored sprinkles, hot fudge and a cherry on top.

the historian records the exceptional because it is interesting—because it is exceptional.

Many simple peoples feared the exceptional individual as a disintegrating force; there is a Chinese proverb that "the great man is a public misfortune.

who was Fezzik. Not your ordinary Hadassah

Success also requires the courage to risk disapproval. Most independent thought, new ideas, or endeavors beyond the common measure are greeted with disapproval, and ranging from skepticism and ridicule to violent outrage. To persevere in anything exceptional requires inner strength and the unshakable conviction that you are right.

One simple diagnostic to gauge whether you've transcended the ordinary is if people feel the need to pull out their cameras.

I'm the best there is at what I do but what I do best isn't very nice

All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

Oh, thought Tom, so it finishes as quickly as this. All the things we make exceptional are merely borrowed from the mundane and must without warning be surrendered to it.

To do a common thing uncommonly well brings success.

ALL TWELVE POSTWAR presidents have passionately affirmed an exceptional role for America in the world.

I am certain, too, that such a soul, such a heart and principles, as are hers are not to be found elsewhere in the world of the present day." (I do not know whence he had derived the habit of saying that few good things were discoverable in the world of the present day, but at all events he loved to repeat the expression, and it somehow suited him.)

I didn't think I would be an exceptional writer, and I thought I might be a useful publisher. I've never regretted it.

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.

As an immigrant, my wish is that we fix immigration. At Sequoia, we've backed a number of exceptional founders that were born abroad but started their careers in the Valley. They've created immense value, but more importantly, massive numbers of jobs locally, nationally and globally.

I am rare, and there is value in all rarity; therefore, I am valuable.

comportamiento de un héroe hay casi siempre algo ciego, irracional, instintivo, algo que está en su naturaleza y a lo que no puede escapar. Además, se puede ser una persona decente durante toda una vida, pero no se puede ser sublime sin interrupción, y por eso el héroe sólo lo es excepcionalmente, en un momento o, a lo sumo, en una temporada de locura o inspiración.

In order to be irreplaceable one must always be different. —Coco Chanel

I'm the only millionaire zoologist there is.

That everything exceptional is doomed to be destroyed derives from the symbolic rule that no player must be bigger than the game itself.