Xceptional Quotes

#1. What excites the media is that someone has a great idea or vision and makes millions as a result. The reality is that rarely happens. It is competency that unlocks a person's potential.
Tim Clark excerpt from DO! the pursuit of xceptional execution

Kevin Kelly

#2. [E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence.

Christopher Hitchens

#3. Attention deficit is no longer the supposed domain of Generation Y's who were brought up on a diet of social media and new technology. A recent study revealed 65 percent of 55-64 year olds surf, text and watch television simultaneously.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#4. As often happens in science, discoveries are made in the pursuit of an elusive (and sometimes nonexistent) goal.

Stephen Hawking

#5. You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Oriana Fallaci

#6. Just because people are in authority, if it doesn't seem right, don't do it. If it violates your own principles, don't do it.

Steve Chabot

#7. Alone, my arse, he thought. I'll walk in alone, while my men sneak up behind them and destroy every last one of the bastards who took my woman.

Karen Marie Moning

#8. Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

Denis Waitley

#9. There's no such thing as perfect. Chasing 'Perfect' is the shortest road to not achieving it.

Gary Vaynerchuk

#10. Our pride, our ego, our fear of failing too often keeps us from achieving greatness, keeps us stuck in jobs we don't like, working with people we can't stand, engaging in pursuits we're not wholeheartedly passionate about.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#11. In 2007, Stanford Business School Advisory committee asserted that self awareness was the most important attribute a leader should develop. The challenge for the modern entrepreneur is to take that path.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#12. How do entrepreneurs survive their early failures? They don't view their failures as failures - they view these experiences as feedback, and a prelude to future success.

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution

#13. Under the white population of the United States of America only the reactionary classes oppres the black population. Under no circumstance can they represent the workers, farmers and revolutionary intellectuals and other enlighted people who form the majority of the white population.

Mao Tse-tung

#14. The futility of action does not absolve one from the failure to act. -

Janette Turner Hospital

#15. There are two gods in this universe: God and Imagination. Both of them can design and create infinite creations.

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#16. My name is Stephen Strange.

I am the Sorcerer Supreme.

I use magic to protect the world.

But I never imagined it was magic itself that would one day need my protection.

Jason Aaron

#17. In 1982, fellow film student Amanda Richardson and I went to Greenham Common for the day - to see what was going on and to shoot some video. The day turned into a weekend, the weekend into seven months, and the dozens of hours of footage turned into a film - 'Carry Greenham Home.'

Beeban Kidron

#18. I've pitched in a lot of big games.

Andy Pettitte

#19. My major goal in business was to learn. I had legislated in my mind for failure the worse possible scenario was I would learn a lot regardless of the outcome. This goal was the foundation for success of the business. Peldi, Balsamiq

Kevin Kelly DO The Pursuit Of Xceptional Execution