A Quote by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Excellence is rarely found, more rarely valued.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Excellence Found More Rarely Valued

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
German - Novelist
August 28, 1749 - March 22, 1832

People employed in financial institutions are rarely interesting and even more rarely likable.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

In America, people rarely stay in the town where they grew up, rarely stay in close proximity to their parents throughout their lives. You rarely find parents in their old age being taken care of by their children.

Robert Benton

Celebrities like to pay lip service to causes but rarely do so by putting their lives in peril. And even more rarely do they do so in the name of the United States of America, not on their own behalf.

Andrew Breitbart

Women have been repeating the same mistake since time began: falling for a man’s potential. We rarely see it the same way, and even more rarely care to achieve it.

Karen Marie Moning

Doormats are rarely valued. Men actually like women who are not that obsessed by the man in their life.

Reham Khan

Rarely do outside of school remedies work their way into the fabric of the schools or into the teachers lives, and more rarely into the classrooms. Therefore they only offer a modest hope of influencing the basic culture of the school

Roland Barthes

I rarely, rarely - unless it's a big red carpet - wear all one designer.

Lily Collins

The creatives are rarely professional and the professionals are rarely creative.

Simon Sinek

One is rarely an impulsive innovator after the age of sixty, but one can still be a very fine orderly and inventive thinker. One rarely procreates children at that age, but one is all the more skilled at educating those who have already been procreated, and education is procreation of another kind.

Georg C. Lichtenberg

A formal and orderly conception of the whole is rarely present, perhaps even rarely possible, except to a few men of exceptional genius.

Chester Barnard

Old-fashioned girl that I am, I still have a landline, though it rarely rings - and when it does, especially without warning, there's rarely anything good on the other end.

Meghan Daum

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing 9 to 5 was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it’s so rarely in the hands of women.

Jane Fonda

I know how gratifying it is not only to work in film but to be acknowledged by peers; producing '9 to 5' was an opportunity that I valued precisely because it's so rarely in the hands of women.

Jane Fonda

Eloquence may be found in conversations and in all kinds of writings; it is rarely found when looked for, and sometimes discovered where it is least expected.

Jean de la Bruyere

Barrons laughed again. "And there, my dear Fio, you make one of Womankind's greatest mistakes: Falling in love with a man's potential. We so rarely share the same view of it, and even more rarely care to achieve it. Stop pining for the man you think I could be -- and take a good, long, hard look at the one I am.

Karen Marie Moning

Doing funny scary is something that is rarely good and rarely works, and it's also something that's incredibly hard to market.