Famous Quotes & Sayings

Brian Tracy

Set excellent performance as your standard and strive to achieve it each day

Deepak Chopra

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

Thornton Wilder

All excellence is equally difficult.

Hannah Arendt

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

Helen Thomas

You're only as good as your last story.

Cassie Campbell

Why is women's hockey the only sport that sort of gets put down for excellence? Why should we stop and not get better?

Dick Vermeil

Todd had an excellent practice, ... He's a good football player. He has never been given the opportunity to demonstrate what he could do.

Jim Campbell

At 47 or 48 feet we have no concern. We have a levee system that is in excellent condition. We feel very comfortable that we are not going to have any problems.

Jim Mitchell

We are very, very fortunate to have someone like Dale step into her shoes. We think that Dale is going to do an excellent job for us.

Evelyn Bean

We are very excited to get Elizabeth. She has a lot of experience and is an excellent player.

Joel Fuhrman

The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients.

Lisa Hall

They were excellent at that. They were. They were really good.

John Mraule

They are extremely quick and have excellent shooters. They run a motion offense and really run the offense well.

Jim Tressel

It was good, hard work and good, physical, competitive kids. They want to be good. They want to uphold the tradition of excellent Ohio State defense.

Jack Dolan

We are looking to them. Oklahoma did an excellent job getting people paid promptly.

Azar Nafisi

I believe in empathy. I believe in the kind of empathy that is created through imagination and through intimate, personal relationships. I am a writer and a teacher, so much of my time is spent interpreting stories and connecting to other individuals. It is the urge to know more about ourselves and others that creates empathy. Through imagination and our desire for rapport, we transcend our limitations, freshen our eyes, and are able to look at ourselves and the world through a new and alternative lens.

Ben Goldacre

I'd like to submit to Bad Science my teacher who gave us a handout which says that 'Water is best absorbed by the body when provided in frequent small amounts.' What I want to know is this. If I drink too much in one go, will it leak out off my arsehole instead? Thank you. Anton.

Catherine McAuley

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Jason Aldean

I only took about five guitar lessons in my life from an actual teacher. I learned fast that that wasn't for me. I didn't have the attention span to learn that way. So I learned the basics from my dad, then just from playing on stage, and watching other guitar players.

Daniel Handler

Most schools have a loud system of loud bells, which startle the students and teachers at regular intervals and remind them that time is passing even more slowly than it seems.

Robert Kiyosaki

Success is a poor teacher

Clive James

The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

Donald Trump

I don't think I changed a lot although I learned a lot. Adversity can be a wonderful teacher. Some people can't handle the pressure of it. For me it was a great thing. I learned about myself going through tough times. I guess I learned well.

Adam Savage

Audiences of critical thinkers are my favorite kinds of audiences. There are jokes I tell in the show that don't get laughs unless I am in front of an audience of critical thinkers. Put me in front of a crowd of science teachers or astronauts! The guileless aren't our audience - it's the critical thinkers we love.