
n.
- The state, quality, or condition of excelling; superiority.
- Something in which one excels.
- Excellence Excellency.
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Definition: superiority
Antonyms: failure, imperfection, inferiority
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Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
— Booker T. Washington (1856-1915).
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"The principle is competing against yourself. It's about self improvement, about being better than you were the day before."
- Steve Young
"A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back."
- Virginia Woolf
"It isn't what you do, but how you do it."
- John Wooden
"My philosophy is that not only are you responsible for your life, but doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment."
- Oprah Winfrey
"I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism and sexism."
- Oprah Winfrey
"Surely a man has come to himself only when he has found the best that is in him, and has satisfied his heart with the highest achievement he is fit for."
- Woodrow T. Wilson
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Excellence is a talent or quality which is unusually good and so surpasses ordinary standards. It is also an aimed for standard of performance.
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The Ancient Greeks had a concept of arete which meant an outstanding fitness for purpose. This occurs in the works of Aristotle and Homer. Another related concept was eudaimonia which was the happiness which resulted from a life well-lived, being prosperous and fulfilled. The equivalent concept in Muslim philosophy is ihsan.
Studies have shown that the most important way to achieve excellent performance in fields such as sport, music, professions and scholarship is to practice. Achievement of excellence in such fields commonly requires approximately 10 years of dedication, comprising about 10,000 hours of effort.[1]
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