A Quote by Jerold Panas
Excellence is never an accident.
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
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You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.
When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.
Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.
As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.
All painting is an accident. But it's also not an accident, because one must select what part of the accident one chooses to preserve.
Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!
Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.
I never did anything worth doing by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I never did anything by accident, nor did any of my inventions come by accident; they came by work.
I never did anything worth doing entirely by accident. . . Almost none of my inventions came about totally by accident. They were achieved by having trained myself to endure and tolerate hard work.
