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Quotes About Surpass

I'm not a dreamer for, you know, 'I want to go to the moon someday.' I accomplished something when I was young, which was much more than I expected to. My results were much bigger than I ever dreamed about it.
~ Nadia Comaneci
When a student surpasses my expectations, I feel proud and betrayed.
~ Sarah Manguso
God has always promised to do more than we would ever ask or imagine. It's just that so few of us take Him up on His offer.
~ Scott Hamilton
The Hubble program has been so fantastically successful. It's more than what anyone expected.
~ Heidi Hammel
surmount a subject
~ Mary Oliver
Aren't you capable of a sublime gesture on occasion? They all work so hard and struggle and suffer, trying to achieve beauty, trying to surpass one another in beauty. Let's surpass them all! Let's throw their sweat in their face. Let's destroy them at one stroke. Let's be gods. Let's be ugly.
~ Ayn Rand
delight exceeds the possibilities envisioned by desire
~ Barthes, Roland
Whoever wants to set a good example must add a grain of foolishness to his virtue: then others can imitate and yet at the same time surpass the one they imitate-which human beings love to do.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Er übertraf die Erwartungen, die er niemals auf sich gesetzt hatte
~ Joseph Roth
Every international at Lyon is untransferable. Until the offer surpasses by far the amount we had expected.
~ Simon Kuper
90 times truth is beyond expectations, 10 times expectations become truth.
~ Aamir Siddiqui
defied the odds;
~ Michael Lewis
This secret spoke Life herself unto me 'Behold,' said she, 'I am that which must ever surpass itself.'
~ Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
It would surpass the powers of a well man nowadays to take up his bed and walk, and I should certainly advise a sick one to lay down his bed and run.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Le besoin de se surpasser doit être instinctif et non pas théorique ou seulement plausible.
~ Henry Miller
There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.
~ Jascha Heifetz
If you want to surpass the stages of doubt and secure better communication between your inner and outer body it is wise to surpass the challenge of the words 'if only'.
~ Stephen Richards
It's about machines like me and people like you and our future together…the sadness that's to come. It will happen. With improvements over time…we'll surpass you…and outlast you…even as we love you.
~ Ian Mcewan
You create a blueprint of your best performance, and you're happiest the night you surpass that blueprint. That won't happen that often, but it will happen. It's like sculpting: you keep refining. When you have a piece that is yours, that is just you, that becomes obsessive; you think about it all the time.
~ Kenneth Cranham
The habit of rendering more service than is expected
~ Napoleon Hill
But they never notice the following inconsistency: this so-called worst-case event, when it happened, exceeded the worst case at the time.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
This whole mission has surpassed all of our expectations.
~ Steven Squyres
Always do more than is required of you.
~ George Patton
Parents accept their obsolescence with the best grace they can muster. . . they do all they can to make it easy for the younger generation to surpass the older, while secretly dreading the rejection that follows.
~ Christopher Lasch