Quotes About Exceptional People

#1. Exceptional people convert life's setbacks into future successes,

Carol S. Dweck

#2. Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

Peter Thomas

#3. All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary.

William Ritter

#4. There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.

Malcolm Gladwell

#5. All nuns, by the very fact of their monastic profession, are exceptional people. No ordinary woman could live such a life. There must inevitably be something, or many things, that are outstanding about a nun.

Jennifer Worth

#6. It was an experience that was exceptional. People frequently ask what it was like and it truly was inspiring. Sometimes during his lifetime, people would try and put him on a pedestal and that's not where he wanted to be, but he was really a great individual.

John Sexton

#7. As the fish doesn't know water, people are ignorant of space. Consciousness is concerned only with changing and varying details; it ignores constants-especially constant backgrounds. Thus only very exceptional people are aware of what is basic to everything.

Alan Watts

#8. Exceptional people deserve special concessions.

Jenny Holzer

#9. Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world.

Erica Jong

#10. Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.

Dale Carnegie

#11. Creativity is not simply a property of exceptional people but an exceptional property of all people.

Ron Carter

#12. I always think that the exceptional people are those who remain outsiders but still communicate on a grand scale. I think I want everyone to feel more free, and so I feel really claustrophobic on behalf of lots of people.

Bat For Lashes

#13. When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere.

Pierre Mac Orlan

#14. So maybe we won't ever win the lottery, or marry royalty, or make that last second shot. That doesn't mean we won't have amazing adventures, meet exceptional people, and make indelible memories. The trick is to notice before it's too late.

John Green

#15. I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

#16. I didn't build Auntie Anne's alone. That would have been impossible. From the very beginning, we had a team around us that was exceptional. Our company was successful because of the dedicated people who worked for us.

Anne F. Beiler

#17. People see themselves as 'succeeding' because they are individually exceptional
they don't see that there is a mechanism that has made it possible for them.

Sarah Schulman

#18. Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality.

Mark LaMoure

#19. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.

Aldous Huxley

#20. The Panda mission really speaks to our philosophy. It is, 'Deliver exceptional Asian dining experiences by building an organization where people are inspired to better their lives.' I'm talking about everyone who works at Panda. They're inspired to better their own lives.

Andrew Cherng

#21. Business is all about people, Miss Steele, and I'm very good at judging people. I know how they tick, what makes them flourish, what doesn't, what inspires them, and how to incentivize them. I employ an exceptional team, and I reward them well.

E.L. James

#22. Commit yourself to excellence.

Mark LaMoure

#23. A man carries within him the germ of his most exceptional action; and if we wise people make eminent fools of ourselves on any particular occasion, we must endure the legitimate conclusion that we carry a few grains of folly to our ounce of wisdom.

George Eliot

#24. Social media is a giant distraction to the ultimate aim, which is honing your craft as a songwriter. There are people who are exceptional at it, however, and if you can do both things, then that's fantastic, but if you are a writer, the time is better spent on a clever lyric than a clever tweet.

Bryan Adams

#25. People take for granted what is in fact an art. To live well, to live comfortably by one's own standards takes a certain maturity of spirit, exceptional character, truly refined taste, and - ' 'And money.

Kathleen Tessaro

#26. That's what's great about baseball: some people are exceptional at the game, but still, even people that aren't very athletic, like me - I played Little League! It's one of those games in sports where even if you're not the greatest, you can still play.

Tom Guiry

#27. Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think.

Marcel Proust

#28. Well, first of all, what we [in USA] need to understand is the middle class is what makes us different and exceptional. Every country has rich people, but what has made us different throughout history is that we have this broad-based vibrant middle class.

Marco Rubio

#29. I enjoyed the crew. The best part about 'The X-Files' has been the crew. This crew is an exceptional family and to go to work with a bunch of people that you really like is great. They're all the best of the best and they really try to do the best job they can. I'll miss that.

Robert Patrick

#30. It is inspiring to see bands still trying to do significant and new things in the realm of sound. Most people in any category are more or less filling out the forms they've been handed. But there are always exceptional gems.

David First

#31. Suicides? Heart attacks? The papers didn't seem interested. The world was full of ways to die, too many to cover. Newsworthy deaths had to be exceptional. Most people go unobserved.

Haruki Murakami

#32. Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional.

John C. Maxwell

#33. In organizations where nothing much happens regardless of whether you do something exceptional or just show up in the morning, the best people lose heart and motivation is reduced near the lowest common denominator.

Judith M Bardwick

#34. Fantasize and start dream building. Bring your dreams into material reality. See yourself at your best. Transform yourself with dedication and work for excellence.

Mark LaMoure

#35. Gifted students represent a vital resource that has unlimited potential. We need to make sure that these exceptional young people have the support and services they need to be successful.

Chuck Grassley

#36. Lovers are easy to find and easy to forget but finding an authentic connection is exceptional and limited. It rarely happens, which is why there are so many unhappy people out there.

Donna Lynn Hope

#37. Greatness only comes in two flavors; God and His people.

Johnnie Dent Jr.

#38. I'm fully aware that I am a lucky, lucky man. This Oscar belongs to all of those people around the world battling ALS. It belongs to one exceptional family, and I will be it's custodian and I promise you that I will polish him, and wait on him hand and foot.

Eddie Redmayne

#39. Americans consider the United States an exceptional nation; so do the Chinese people think of their Middle Kingdom.

Patrick Mendis

#40. There aren't going to be many easy nights at all. There are going to be a lot of people beating up on each other. The pitching of the White Sox and Twins is exceptional.

Mark Shapiro

#41. It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes

Oswald Chambers

#42. people we think of as exceptional aren't that way because of who they are, but because of what they do. In

Tynan

#43. Develop yourself from practice to become exceptional. Aim to be the blue ribbon best.

Mark LaMoure

#44. That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.

Aldous Huxley

#45. Exceptional estimable, good, nice, dear people they all were but they all, unluckily, kept asking me about the new novel, and that was excrutiating.

Robert Walser

#46. Age is a state of mind. Youth and age exist only among the ordinary people. All the more talented and exceptional of us; are sometimes old, just as we are sometimes happy, and sometimes sad.

Hermann Hesse

#47. We do participate in the government programs, like probably 95 percent of farmers do. People who aren't familiar with the agriculture industry, you know, try and make that look like something exceptional.

Vicky Hartzler

#48. It's perfectly normal that extraordinary things happen to me. I'm an exceptional person. Oh, don't think I'm boasting. I mean to say that, unfortunately, I'm exceptional and that, unfortunately, I can't live by the rules. I must make my own.

Cocteau

#49. Casting people as victims works very effectively to keep them powerless. By keeping them focussed on all the bad in their lives, it leaves them eaten up with resentment for an entire lifetime and prevents them from taking those first steps toward an exceptional life.

Genevieve Davis

#50. In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever.

Willa Cather

#51. People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre.

Frank Sonnenberg

#52. I do feel as if ... Look, I think I'm a very kind of ordinary person, and it seems to me that things that are of interest to me will probably be of interest to other people. I'm not exceptional; I don't have exceptional thoughts.

Kate Grenville

#53. The best advice is often the compliments received, and they are often about an associate who did something exceptional. I tell my teams that it's the random acts of kindness, the unexpected, that people remember most.

Barry Sternlicht

#54. There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive.

Fritz Leiber

#55. One thing most people don't know is that Steve Jobs is an exceptional designer.

Jonathan Ive

#56. Make success happen by striving and working to be the best. Aim at excellence and hit the target.

Mark LaMoure

#57. People say America is exceptional. I agree, but it's not the complexion of our skin or the twists in our DNA that make us unique. America is exceptional because we were founded upon the notion that everyone should be free to pursue life, liberty, and happiness.

Rand Paul

#58. In times of exceptional stress, nature will often give people's behavior so tragical a complexion that neither a picture nor a verbal description is competent to represent its titanic energy.

Stefan Zweig

#59. We've been sold this lie that disability makes you exceptional and it honestly doesn't. ... I want to live in a world where we don't have such low expectations of disabled people that we are congratulated for getting out of bed and remembering our own names in the morning.

Stella Young

#60. When I teach and meet a class for the first time, you realize that there are people there that have exceptional abilities or have the potential to do exceptional things and you never know who those people are. My job is to provide the best information I can.

John Sexton

#61. You take a picture of yourself in some exceptional situation - skydiving or whatever. People always post those photos because it works - you're saying something about yourself that begs a conversation and that's what the users are there for.

Christian Rudder

#62. Don't assume you have to be extraordinary to be used by God. You don't have to have exceptional gifts, talents, abilities, or connections. God specializes in using ordinary people whose limitations and weaknesses make them ideal showcases for His greatness and glory.

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#63. Everything big, once started little. Discipline yourself and work to become an excellent person at what you want. Stretch yourself daily and go a little further than yesterday. Growth is the key to winning success.

Mark LaMoure

#64. I've known people with exceptional talent - and some have wasted it. Ambition spurs a man on.

Geoffrey Boycott

#65. You tend to become that, what you want most. Look to the light of God, expect the best and give it your best. Make success happen with devotion and dedication. You can do it.

Mark LaMoure

#66. I love entertaining Korean people with traditional songs from Ecuador . It has been an exceptional, new experience for me to perform in Korea and I enjoyed so much.

Jose Gonzalez

#67. You are the artistic painter of your success. Paint your life day-by-day, into a masterpiece of excellence over a lifetime.

Mark LaMoure

#68. This is what people were looking at all day? How embarrassing! I looked like Quasimodo! My guests were exceptional actors.

Cameo Renae

#69. Colors shone with exceptional clarity in the rain. The ground was a deep black, the pine branches a brilliant green, the people wrapped in yellow looking like special spirits that were allowed to wander over the earth on rainy mornings only.

Haruki Murakami

#70. Obviously these are some exceptional young people, but what they have in common is that they were ordinary people who cared. They wanted to act, to do something, to make life better for other people - and they have.

Morgan Carroll

#71. Our higher education system is one of the things that makes America exceptional. There's no place else that has the assets we do when it comes to higher education. People from all over the world aspire to come here and study here. And that is a good thing.

Barack Obama

#72. People feel that European institutions are remote and bureaucratic, run by shady cosmopolitan elites. Britain is not absolutely exceptional because if you look at the opinion polls, those sentiments are now quite widespread also in continental Europe.

Timothy Garton Ash

#73. American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's minds wasted? Exceptional at what? Eating more junk food and becoming the most obese nation on Earth?

Gerald Celente

#74. You become like that, what you admire most. By admiring excellence and practicing, it can boost you to become excellent.

Mark LaMoure

#75. The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.

Alexis De Tocqueville

#76. People doing good work feel good & people doing exceptional work feel, exceptional. Accomplishments contributes greatly to satisfaction.

Mark Sanborn

#77. The attention of the congregation is a major part of the attention that the pastor gives to his or her utterance. It's very exceptional. I don't know anyone who doesn't enjoy a good sermon. People who are completely nonreligious know a good sermon when they hear one.

Marilynne Robinson

#78. To be a superstar, you must do something exceptional. Not just survive the Dip, but use the Dip as an opportunity to create something so extraordinary that people can't help but talk about it, recommend it, and, yes, choose it.

Seth Godin

#79. Restructuring a job usually means restructuring a score of jobs, moving people around, and upsetting everybody. There is one exception: the exceedingly rare, truly exceptional man for whose sake the rule should be broken.

Peter F. Drucker

#80. The Montgomery bus boycott would have happened without King, but King's oratory helped to ensure that the boycott came one of those exceptional local movements for justice that would send ripples of inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.

Troy Jackson

#81. It's an exceptional time, and it's always the happiest time if you can be really present and doing the things that you want to be doing and surrounding yourself with the people you love. So, yeah, I'm in a good spot right now.

Julia Roberts

#82. An exceptional brand culture has the effect of a charm, it entices and binds people.

Bernard Kelvin Clive

#83. I see the Baldrige process as a powerful set of mechanisms for disciplined people engaged in disciplined thought and taking disciplined action to create great organizations that produce exceptional results.

James C. Collins