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When he died, Emerson was thought of as the representative American writer par excellence, and his point of view was still so potent that William James was honored to be asked to speak at a centenary celebration.

Howard Mumford Jones

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American

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

The noblest search is the search for excellence.

Lyndon B. Johnson

Excellence

I believe the destiny of your generation - and your nation - is a rendezvous with excellence.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

The Civil Service is a vital economic asset to the UK - firstly, in the way it creates a framework for excellence in service delivery and secondly, in how it helps organise the best way to deliver modern public services on which both businesses and individuals depend.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

David Halberstam

America

Excellence

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega Y Gasset

Excellence