Expecting Excellence Quotes & Sayings

I think one thing that has helped me to be an entrepreneur is being an immigrant and coming to the United States. I had to basically build a new life for myself, and adjust very quickly to a new environment, new culture, learn a new language. — Anousheh Ansari

Despite all our desperate, eternal attempts to separate, contain and mend, categories always leak. — Trinh T. Minh-ha

It simply is not true that everything is now on the Internet, but it is true that the digital resources available through the Internet have enormous potential for education and even for self-empowerment of individuals. — Robert Darnton

Excellence is the Result of Caring more than others think is Wise, Risking more than others think is Safe, Dreaming more than others think is Practical, and Expecting more than others think is Possible. — Ronnie Oldham

In other words, when women acquire critical skills and starting weighing their options they soon wise up to the fact that they're not getting enough recompense for their labors. In trade union terms, you'd call it a production slowdown ... — Meghan Daum

The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence? — Gene Stallings

Desire is endless and unappeasable, is most intense where most forbidden, and is never far from despair. — Allen Wheelis

You will fall in love with someone for one night and one night only. They'll come to you when you need them and be gone in the morning when you don't. At first, this will make you feel empty and you'll try to convince yourself that you could've loved this person for longer than a night, but you can't. Some people are just meant to make cameo appearances, some are destined to be a pithy footnote. That's okay though. Not every person we love has to stick around. Sometimes it's better to leave while you're still ahead. Sometimes it's better to leave before you get unloved. — Ryan O'Connell

I was never very good at being an unemployed actor. I always thought that I should have been doing something pro-active. I was never good at doing juvenile leads. I suppose it's because I have this big sarcastic head on me. — Deirdre O'Kane

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene — David McCullough

Even then, as I stood there, that first morning, filled with apprehension at the terrifying implications of my dreadful situation, — Michael Morpurgo