“Excellence connects.”
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American author, speaker and pastor 1947Related quotes
“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.

“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”

His Biographers remark quoted in “Believing in Perfection” in New India Digest

Dico, che l'arte della Scultura infra tutte l'arte, che s'interviene disegno, è maggiore sette volte, perchè una statua di Scultura deve avere otto vedute, e conviene che la sieno tutte di egual bontà.
Letter to Benedetto Varchi, January 28, 1546, cited from G. P. Carpani (ed.) Vita di Benvenuto Cellini (Milano: Nicolo Bettoni, 1821) vol. 3, p. 183; translation from Thomas Nugent (trans.) The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, a Florentine Artist (London: Hunt and Clarke, 1828) vol. 2, p. 264.

“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”

The Geographical History of America (1936)

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Characteristics, in the manner of Rochefoucauld's Maxims (1823)

“I myself had rather excel others in excellency of learning than in greatness of power.”
Alexander, sec. 7
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