Posts Tagged ‘Excellence’
When one has great gifts, what answer to the meaning of existence should one require beyond the right to exercise them?
Wystan Hugh Auden
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.
Woody Allen
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.
William Hazlitt
No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
William James
I am done with great things and big plans, great institutions and big success. I am for those tiny, invisible loving human forces that work from individual to individual, creeping through the crannies of the world like so many rootlets, or like the capil
William James
The greatest use of a life is to spend it on something that will outlast it.
William James
Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being. They make use of a very small portion of their possible consciousness, and of their soul’s resources in general, much like a man who, out of his whole bodily organism, should get into a habit of using and moving only his lttle finger. Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
William James
The greatest discovery of my generation is that human beings can alter their lives by altering their attitudes of mind.
William James
The greatest discovery of any generation is that a human being can alter his life by altering his attitude.
William James