Measure Of Excellence Quotes

#1. Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.

Jean Aitchison

#2. For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

Edmund Burke

#3. He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

Jean De La Bruyere

#4. Our most important education system is in the employees' own organization.

Peter Drucker

#5. It is the nature of aphoristic thinking to be always in a state of concluding; a bid to have the final word is inherent in all powerful phrase-making.

Susan Sontag

#6. I owe the public just one thing - a good performance.

Bob Gibson

#7. Coffee is the great incentivizer in the office.

Michael Scott

#8. We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

John Selden

#9. As if you can measure literary excellence with precise instruments; as if there were a science of writing, governed by equations that reveal immutable truths.

Justine Picardie

#10. Colonel Cathcart was impervious to absolutes. He could measure his own progress only in relationship to others, and his idea of excellence was to do something at least as well as all the men his own age who were doing the same thing even better.

Joseph Heller

#11. I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

Meghan O'Rourke

#12. The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

Phyllis Diller

#13. I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.

Kate Winslet

#14. We reform others unconsciously when we walk uprightly.

Sophie Swetchine

#15. I grew up with Scientology - my parents at one point were clerical. It's a pragmatic philosophy, not merely a belief system. Yeah, it's had media exposure because certain luminaries do Scientology, but millions of people do it who are not celebrities. It's not a threat or some cult.

Giovanni Ribisi

#16. I'm an ambassador for Medical Detection dogs.

Lesley Nicol

#17. [ ... ] it is not easy to talk [ ... ] religion to men who measure excellence by forbidden meats [ ... ]

Richard Francis Burton

#18. If we neglect or abandon those who are suffering in poverty ... not only are we depriving ourselves of potential opportunities for markets and economic growth, but ultimately that despair may turn to violence that turns on us.

Barack Obama

#19. I would say that the quality of each man's life is the full measure of that man's commitment of excellence and victory - whether it be football, whether it be business, whether it be politics or government or what have you.

Vince Lombardi

#20. The basic rule [of writing] given us was simple and heartbreaking. A story to be effective had to convey something from the writer to the reader, and the power of its offering was the measure of its excellence. Outside of that, there were no rules.

John Steinbeck

#21. Call me hopeless romantic but I want to see my friend with the guy she's been pining for forever ... I want that more than anything on this earth.

Kristen Ashley