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If you're in a job that feels safe, you are not going to get exceptional, because if there is no danger there is almost certainly no leverage. — Paul Graham

If I was an exceptional human being in Detroit, then I saw no reason why I couldn't be an exceptional human being in Mississippi. In Hattiesburg. — Victoria Gray Adams

When you have a taste for exceptional people, you always end up meeting them everywhere. — Pierre Mac Orlan

I'm an exceptional artist. Trapped in the body of man with no musical — Kathleen Tessaro

He seems indeed to have been a man of exceptional kindness and amiability, — George Santayana

Every exceptional writer holds a Master of Arts in Daydreaming. — Richelle E. Goodrich

What is normal? Normal is only ordinary; mediocre. Life belongs to the rare, exceptional individual who dares to be different. — V.C. Andrews

In retirement, Smith reflected on his exceptional performance, saying simply, I never stopped trying to become qualified for the job. — James C. Collins

As a youngster, I was considered exceptional, and in many ways that was to my detriment. — Michael Owen

Exceptional leaders are fearless in setting expectations in clear language. — Alan Willett

Well, I don't like the first bit and I don't know the last bit. So I'm really hoping the middle bit is exceptional. — Eoin Colfer

Unfortunately, goodness and honor are rather the exception than the rule among exceptional men, not to speak of geniuses. — Cesare Lombroso

Cooking skills aside, my mother is an exceptional nurturer. — Jami Attenberg

Exceptional talent and extraordinary creativity are irrelevant! It's what you do with what little you have that counts big time in the end. — Ernie J Zelinski

The retreat of a minor piece to the back rank, where it cuts the lines of communication between the rooks, is permissable only in exceptional cases. — Alexander Alekhine

The women that I met were exceptional, extraordinary - tremendous purity, tremendous gentleness, self-giving and power. — Frederick Lenz

The daily standard of unlivability isn't news. So when the exceptional passes, everything is silent and everything continues to rot. — Elena Ferrante

drive to win and the desire to make a profit are given by God to provide the incentive required for conquering exceptional challenges. — Ed Silvoso

There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them. — Malcolm Gladwell

There are always exceptions,' replied Flea. 'They are what make you exceptional. — Mo Willems

Nations are not poor or rich because of their wealth but exceptional morality. — M.F. Moonzajer

We have an exceptional natural wealth that is environmentally friendly. — Raymond Bachand

We believe in constitutional action in normal times; we believe in revolutionary action in exceptional times. — James Connolly

No woman could adjust herself to lesbianism without developing exceptional qualities of courage. — Diana Frederics

Something remarkable is worth talking about. Worth noticing. Exceptional. New. Interesting. It's a Purple Cow. — Seth Godin

One rare and exceptional deed is worth far more than a thousand commonplace ones. — Saint Ignatius

Your greatest asset is your learning ability. The ordinary stroke their egos - the exceptional polishes their craft — Robin Sharma

A man recovers best from his exceptional nature - his intellectuality - by giving his animal instincts a chance. — Friedrich Nietzsche

You're not just different, you're exceptional. And I think it's time that I make you feel that way, too. — Kandi Steiner

[Nelson] Mandela was very keen not to be understood as an exceptional person. — Kumi Naidoo

I've been very fortunate because many of the teachers I had were exceptional. But I didn't realize that at the time that all teachers were not alike. — Frederick Lenz

Sometimes we have to wait for years to seek a really exceptional thing. I always wanted to give you the best thing in the world but ... — Anuradha Bhattacharyya

I stopped walking and stared down at my pink painted toenails. That was it. Of course. No, not my choice of polish, although it was exceptional, — Gemma Halliday

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

I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives. — Joseph B. Wirthlin

I've just got an exceptional memory, if I say so myself. — Alan Sugar

Men who believe that, through some exceptional grace or good fortune, they have found God, feel little need of culture. — Agnes Repplier

What they achieved in art and literature is familiar to everybody, but what they did in the purely intellectual realm is even more exceptional. — Anonymous

He ... preferred always the more to the less remote, what, seeming exceptional, was an instance of law more refined ... — Walter Pater

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was? — Salman Rushdie

You can't be great if you don't feel great. Make exceptional health your #1 priority. — Robin Sharma

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune. — Peter Thomas

I know I'm in the exceptional position of having money but I didn't have it for many decades. — Cameron Mackintosh

I believe that UNICEF is the most important branch of the U.N.; they do exceptional work to help the neediest children around the world — Liam Neeson

Knowledge is an exceptional kind of property which cannot be lost or used up. — Eraldo Banovac

Life exists in the universe only because the carbon atom possesses certain exceptional properties. — James Jeans

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts. — Richard Koch

I have a notion that genius knows itself; that Dickinson chose her seclusion, knowing she was exceptional and knowing what she needed. — Adrienne Rich

An ordinary life examined closely reveals itself to be exquisite and complicated and exceptional, somehow managing to be both heroic and plain. — Susan Orlean

There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service. — Andrew Carnegie

Washington's Corruption and Mendacity Is What Makes America 'Exceptional' — Paul Craig Roberts

As any exceptional actor will tell you, the most important element of acting is honesty. If you can fake that, you're golden. — The Gang

All exceptional people are, by definition, exceptions to the norm. If we insist on being ordinary, we can never be truly extraordinary. — William Ritter

There was a wish to get something exceptional, ... I also wanted to deliver something technically unique. — Santiago Calatrava

The ability to get along without an exceptional leader is the mark of social vigor. — Eric Hoffer

This was a species with an exceptional ability to ignore its approaching doom. — Salman Rushdie

. . to be exceptional in martial arts, you must possess the "4 C's" : Consistency, Commitment, Creativity and Competence — Soke Behzad Ahmadi

My mother was a very literate person who had educated herself. She had an exceptional vocabulary. — Lynn Johnston

In life every moment is exceptional, every moment is most important. — Debasish Mridha

Love is a perpetual journey that is extraordinary because it will never find itself terminated by a destination. — Craig D. Lounsbrough

There we were, a small bunch of rather bright and fortunate young people, thinking ourselves somehow special and exceptional, but really very naive. — Fritz Leiber

[E]xceptional claims demand exceptional evidence. — Christopher Hitchens

Communism was something so hideous that you had to be an exceptional conformist or a fool not to see the evil around you. — Donald Tusk

Washington was a man of exceptional, almost excessive self-command, rarely permitting himself any show of discouragement or despair. — David McCullough

For Net-A-Porter and its customers, luxury means exceptional service, 24-7 - wherever they are, whenever they have time. — Natalie Massenet

If you want to produce exceptional writing you have to put the work into it. — R.L. Hemlock

The commonplace becomes exceptional when God is involved. — Judy Baer

It was simply one of those things that remain as an "exceptional but interesting" episode in life. — Haruki Murakami

Leaders make things possible. Exceptional leaders make them inevitable. — Lance Morrow

For example, I tend to personally reward myself for specific acts of exceptional discipline. — Robert Vaughn

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me. — Paul Newman

Exceptional thinkers ignore their critics and go about their business making history. — John Eliot

I admire Miken's exceptional engineering capabilities and was drawn to their passion for hockey and drive to be the best in all they do. — Brett Hull

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. — Lorraine Hansberry

Most People have a desire to look for the exception instead of the desire to become exceptional. — John C. Maxwell

His beauty was notable even in a province where the lack of it is more exceptional in a young man. — Tennessee Williams

Commit yourself to excellence. — Mark LaMoure

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man. — Edouard Manet

The ignorant man marvels at the exceptional; the wise man marvels at the common; the greatest wonder of all is the regularity of nature. — George Dana Boardman Pepper

Improve yourself. Raise your attitude up to excellence for success. Get going now and create the reality. — Mark LaMoure

To create something to dream about, I need exceptional women, locations and architectures. — Thierry Mugler

Out of the way! We are in the throes of an exceptional emergency! This is no occassion for sport- there is lace at stake! (Ms. Pole) — Elizabeth Gaskell

Exceptional people are often called crazy by the ordinary world. — Erica Jong

Sometimes in this life, under the stress of an exceptional emotion, people do say what they think. — Marcel Proust

Our educational system basically strives for normal-which is too bad. Sometimes the exceptional is classified as abnormal and pushed aside. — Neil Young

What makes America exceptional are the bonds that hold together the most diverse nation on earth. — Barack Obama

We are not exceptional in our beginnings, we become exceptional by refusing to accept the obstacles which destiny has placed before us. — Evelyn J. Hinz

If you use your money to create exceptional products and services, you won't need to spend it on advertising. — Seth Godin

We live in exceptional times. — Anthony Doerr

Idiosyncrasy and vicissitude had combined to stamp Sergeant Troy as an exceptional being. — Thomas Hardy

A positive mindset, not a doomsday mentality, supports being exceptional. — Wayne Dyer

It is not human to be wise,' said Blood. 'It is much more human to err, though perhaps exceptional to err on the side of mercy. — Rafael Sabatini

'Call Me' is not an exceptional Al Green album, but it is as solid as a rock at its center. — Jon Landau

Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine. — Michael Kimmelman

You all right now?"
"I'm exceptional. Wonderful. Thanks for the concern. You complete me. — Kathy Reichs

In fact, we live in a culture where intelligence, exceptional or not, is reviled. — Fran Lebowitz

America is exceptional: but because it yields the likes of Obama, not the likes of Bush. — Eric Liu

One thing that America is objectively exceptional at is overreacting whenever anyone accuses them of not being exceptional. — John Oliver

People stop trying when there's no benefit for being exceptional and no consequence for being mediocre. — Frank Sonnenberg

To live in Metropolis was to know that the exceptional was as commonplace as diet soda, that abnormality was the popcorn norm. — Salman Rushdie