Quotes on Exceptional

Days are expensive. When you spend a day you have one less day to spend. So make sure you spend each one wisely.

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional.

If you want to be a leader who attracts quality people, the key is to become a person of quality yourself.

Profits are better than wages. Wages make you a living; profits make you a fortune.

There was no publicity. You had to like it. There was no pressure, just great competition. The attitude of the coaches and players was exceptional.

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

Surely the memory of an event cannot pass for the event itself. Nor can the anticipation. There is something exceptional, unique, about the present event, which the previous, or the coming do not have. There is livingness about it, an actuality; it stands out as if illumined. There is the "stamp of reality" on the actual, which the past and future do not have.

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair.

Do not think a man has done his full duty when he has performed the work assigned him. A man will never rise if he does only this. Promotion comes from exceptional work.

Round about the accredited and orderly facts of every science there ever floats a sort of dust-cloud of exceptional observations, of occurrences minute and irregular and seldom met with, which it always proves more easy to ignore than to attend to... Anyone will renovate his science who will steadily look after the irregular phenomena, and when science is renewed, its new formulas often have more of the voice of the exceptions in them than of what were supposed to be the rules.

Courage is the enforcing virtue, the one that makes possible all the other virtues common _x000D_ _x000D_ to exceptional leaders: honesty, integrity, confidence, compassion and humility

To be courageous requires no exceptional qualifications, no magic formula, no special combination of time, place, and circumstance. It is an opportunity that sooner or later is presented to us all.

Of course, true love is exceptional - two or three times a century, more or less. The rest of the time there is vanity or boredom.

Unless saved by exceptional talent, he necessarily pays the price of clarity.

We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.

It's only those exceptional and rare individuals who have brilliant ideas delivered to them by the muse, complete and gift wrapped. The rest of us have to work at it.

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

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

One of the greatest gifts you can give to anyone is the gift of attention