Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle
rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those
because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence,
then, is not an act but a habit.
-- Aristotle
Related:
- We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act,
but a habit. --... - We are inclined to believe those we do not know, because they have
never deceived us.
Samuel Johnson (1709... - By appreciation,
we make excellence in others our own property. --... - What we have to learn to do we learn by doing.
-- Aristotle,
Ethica nicomachea II (c. 325 B.C... - We have art that we do not die of the truth.
--
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844... - We have art that we do not die of the truth
--... - We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it,
we'll send in a couple of policemen. -- Frank Rizzo... - We all have failures. The question is,
what do we do with them... - We have finished the job,
what shall we do with the tools...
From the same category:
- The young wish to give their elders the full benefits
of their inexperience... - s: write failed,
file system is... - Angels can fly because they take themselves lightly."
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Gilbert K. Chesterton (1874... - A warm beer is better than no
beer at... - That parrot is definitely
deceased...
