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[steelwingcrash1]

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Excellence quotes:

"Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer."

"Excellence is not a skill. It is an attitude for people to strive better."

 

[blai]

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"There's a party in my pants, but there's no pants in my party" - Unknown

 

[Crude]

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"Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."
- J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad-Gita

J. Robert Oppenheimer is known for is role as the scientific director of the Manhattan Project, which lead to the development of the first nuclear weapons. He is also referred to as the "father of the atomic bomb". Oppenheimer stated that as he witnessed the first artificial nuclear explosion, he recalled a quote from the Hindu holy book Bhagavad-Gita.

There is a clip of him quoting the line on youtube. It's hard to explain the emotion felt as he says the line...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x39eRJA1aVU

I also like the quote because it's written on Animal Mother's helmet in the movie Full Metal Jacket, which really gives an insight in what kind of character he is.

 

[steelwingcrash1]

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I counseled my student with this quote:

"It takes a great deal of courage to stand up against your enemies... but it takes a greater courage to stand up against your own friends."

I don't know who said this one, though.

 

[Adorien]

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"I'm unique. Just like everybody else."

"Be yourself. The rest is already taken."

 

[Freid]

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"Don't use such strong words. It makes you look weak."

- Aizen.

 

[steelwingcrash1]

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"In the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years."

Abraham Lincoln

 

[XxLawlieTxX]

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",there's no need to be shy... No need to be so angry ether.."

 

[steelwingcrash1]

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"For everyone of us that succeeds, it's because there's somebody there to show you the way out. The light doesn't always necessarily have to be in your family; for me it was teachers and school."

- Oprah Winfrey

 

[Roflkopt3r]

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"At the latest at this point it becomes clear to us, that we're living in a world which we assume to be so, while it merely is the method how we see the world."
(Es wird hier spätestens klar, dass wir in einer Welt leben, von der wir annehmen, dass sie so ist, während sie für uns lediglich die Art und Weise ist, wie wir die Welt sehen.)
Paul Watzlawick
Ok, it's not really a "new" statement, but nicely phrased (in the German original at least). And the speech was hold in 1987 already.

"In our better hours, we wake up as far that we can realise that we are dreaming"
(In unseren besseren Stunden wachen wir so weit auf, dass wir erkennen, dass wir träumen.)
Ludwig Wittgenstein

 

[steelwingcrash1]

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"A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions."

Oliver Holmes

 

[Bugzee]

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“Music is enough for a lifetime, but a lifetime is not enough for music” ~ Sergei Rachmaninov

 

[Organizized]

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, there's just God when he's drunk." - Tom Waits

"I'd rather have a bottle in front a' me than a frontal lobotomy." - Tom Waits

 

[Zeltrax]

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"I can sum up life in 3 words, it goes on" - Robert Frost

 

[Roflkopt3r]

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"Experienced lawyers state, that it can be of advantage in court, to be in the right." Graham Chapman

"Act always so as to increase the number of choices"
Heinz von Foerster, "ethical imperative" in "radical constructivism".
I found this quote to be extremely good in boiling down decisions to a fundamental rule.
What creates more options, destroying or preserving? Obviously, preserving does. Same for protecting or killing, for caring or ignoring, learning or not learning.
It means to have bonds to people, increase the own knowledge and not to be too fixated on the own ideas, but overthinking them constantly and re-adjusting them.

Von Foerster was both a philosopher and scientist in fields of IT and cybernetics.

 

[kkck]

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I have thought this is the coolest thing ever said ever since I saw it in the movie 4 years ago (I know the movie is from the 80s but I saw is 4 years ago)

"Greed, for lack of a better word, is good. Greed is right. Greed works. Greed clarifies, cuts through, and captures, the essence of the evolutionary spirit. Greed, in all of its forms; greed for life, for money, for love, knowledge, has marked the upward surge of mankind and greed, you mark my words, will not only save Teldar Paper, but that other malfunctioning corporation called the U.S.A."

Although, to be fair I do think ambition is a better word than greed.

 

[cracker]

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"Nothing is so common as the wish to be remarkable." William Shakespeare
"I object to violence because when it appears to do good, the good is only temporary. The evil it does is permanent." Mahatma Ghandi
"In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act." George Orwell
"Of all the animals, man is the only one that is cruel. He is the only one who inflicts pain for the pleasure of doing it." Mark Twain

 

[Rikudou Sennin]

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"If you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - Sherlock Holmes

""Life is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're gonna get." Forrest Gump

So many great one were already mentioned.

 

[Organizized]

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"When life gives you lemons, just say f*ck the lemons and bail." - Kunu (Paul Rudd), Forgetting Sarah Marshall

 

[Zeltrax]

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"Without love, it cannot be seen"
- umineko no naku koro ni