All Quotes

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.
‐‐ Rick Pitino

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
‐‐ Booker T. Washington

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
‐‐ Jose Ortega y Gasset

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
‐‐ Aristotle

Excellent content is available online to everyone. I like it because it's a flattening of the playing field.
‐‐ Mariam Naficy

Excellent education and an excellent environment are two hallmarks of our state. How we treat our environment is connected to so many other opportunities in Maine.
‐‐ John Baldacci

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
‐‐ Tom Peters

Excellent teachers showered on to us like meteors: Biology teachers holding up human brains, English teachers inspiring us with a personal ideological fierceness about Tolstoy and Plato, Art teachers leading us through the slums of Boston, then back to the easel to hurl public school gouache with social awareness and fury.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

Excellent, there's nothing quite like a blunt object to reinforce proper administration ethics.
‐‐ Simon Travaglia

Excelsior, higher and higher, but only step by step.
‐‐ Daniel D. Palmer

Except a living man, there is nothing more wonderful than a book.
‐‐ Charles Kingsley

Except among those whose education has been in the minimalist style, it is understood that hasty moral judgments about the past are a form of injustice.
‐‐ Jacques Barzun

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
‐‐ George Bernard Shaw

Except for a few guitar chords, everything I've learned in my life that is of any value I've learned from women.
‐‐ Glenn Frey

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.
‐‐ Richard Curtis

Except for a God who sits down after the universe begins, all other gods conflict with the assumptions of science.
‐‐ Alan Lightman

Except for a short period at the end of World War II, I attended an elementary school affiliated to Kobe University from ages six to twelve and then moved on to Nada Middle and High School from ages twelve to eighteen. I enjoyed many out-door activities in my youth.
‐‐ Ryoji Noyori

Except for Ali, fighters had never been marketable.
‐‐ Sugar Ray Leonard

Except for Carrie Bradshaw's in the opening credits of 'Sex and the City,' I don't know if the tutu has ever really been trendy, but I want to wear one. I want to dance around in it, and I want that to be socially acceptable.
‐‐ Devin Kelley

Except for certain moments - when cells are dividing, for instance - chromosomes don't form compact, countable bodies inside cells. Instead, they unravel and flop about, which makes counting chromosomes a bit like counting strands of ramen in a bowl.
‐‐ Sam Kean

Except for me, no one in my family could draw.
‐‐ Joseph Barbera

Except for naval and air exercises, our military should be stationed on American soil, where service men and women can lead normal lives in close proximity to family and friends.
‐‐ Camille Paglia

Except for politics, no business is scrutinized more exhaustively than journalism.
‐‐ Russell Baker

Except for some effects that I attribute mostly to age, my intuitive thinking is just as prone to overconfidence, extreme predictions, and the planning fallacy as it was before I made a study of these issues.
‐‐ Daniel Kahneman

Except for the Bible, the two greatest documents ever written are the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
‐‐ Rafael Cruz

Except for the grace of God, I would be nobody - and that grace is the opposite of merit - human labour, education or human wisdom.
‐‐ T. B. Joshua

Except for the occasional heart attack, I never felt better.
‐‐ Dick Cheney

Except for the projects in Israel, my being Israeli has contributed negatively to my global activity. It is hard for me, for example, to get projects in the Persian Gulf emirates.
‐‐ Moshe Safdie

Except for the title 'father,' there is no title, including 'vice president,' that I am more proud to wear than that of United States senator.
‐‐ Joe Biden

Except from 2002 to 2010, we never went three years without buying a bank.
‐‐ Gerald J. Ford

Except here it's more power, more energy, younger and also in Europe it's still not only entertainment. Theater or films are looked at as a moral institution. That's why maybe they're so poetic. Here it's clear entertainment.
‐‐ Maximilian Schell

Except in very narrow cases, where there's breakthrough science that needs patent production, worrying about competitors is a waste of time. If you can't out iterate someone who is trying to copy you, you're toast anyway.
‐‐ Eric Ries

Except on their southern borders the great northern forests are not good as a permanent home for man.
‐‐ Ellsworth Huntington

Except our own thoughts, there is nothing absolutely in our power.
‐‐ Rene Descartes

Except that awards are competitive, which is a negative thing, they are wonderful for singling out deserving individuals and bringing their work to the attention of many potential readers who might otherwise have been totally unaware of them.
‐‐ Joyce Carol Oates

Except when war is waged in a desert, noncombatants, also known as civilians or 'the people,' constitute the great majority of those affected.
‐‐ Martin Van Creveld

Exceptional employees don't possess God-given personality traits; they rely on simple, everyday EQ skills that anyone can incorporate into their repertoire.
‐‐ Travis Bradberry

Exceptionally hard decisions can deplete your energy to the point at which you finally cave in. If you mentally crumble and degenerate into negative thinking, you'll magnify the problem to the point where it can haunt you.
‐‐ John C. Maxwell

Exceptions are not always the proof of the old rule; they can also be the harbinger of a new one.
‐‐ Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Excess body fat alters the levels of the hormones insulin, leptin, and estrogen, and these factors are believed to be responsible for the acceleration of pubertal timing by obesity.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lifetime probability of developing high blood pressure - so even if your blood pressure is normal now, if you continue to eat the typical American diet, you will be at risk.
‐‐ Joel Fuhrman

Excess exercise tends to be counterbalanced by excess hunger, exemplified by the phrase 'working up an appetite.' A few people with extraordinary willpower can resist such hunger day after day, but for the vast majority, weight loss through exercise is a flawed option.
‐‐ Andrew Weil

Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments.
‐‐ Plato

Excess is success.
‐‐ Roberto Cavalli

Excess of grief for the dead is madness; for it is an injury to the living, and the dead know it not.
‐‐ Xenophon

Excess of joy is harder to bear than any amount of sorrow.
‐‐ Honore de Balzac

Excess of liberty, whether it lies in state or individuals, seems only to pass into excess of slavery.
‐‐ Plato

Excess of wealth is cause of covetousness.
‐‐ Christopher Marlowe

Excessive dealings with tyrants are not good for the security of free states.
‐‐ Demosthenes