Tocqueville's arias to excellence and warnings about mediocrity have misled people into thinking him a snob.
You were not expected to aspire to excellence: you were expected to make peace with mediocrity.
Perhaps the reason they stood out was because the prison system didn't lend itself to excellence.
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It takes talent, hours and hours of hard work, and a commitment to excellence.
It will lead to excellence for some and that is better than something good for everyone.
That's why we know we have to communicate values and a dedication to excellence at every level.
In the area of education, we're returning to excellence, and again, the heroes are our people, not government.
She stressed upon creating safe, healthy, inclusive and equitably resourced educational environments, conducive to excellence in learning.
So will consumers recognize this commitment to excellence during their normal shopping excursions?
It is an improbable story in some ways, for Mr Chandler appeared an unlikely person to lead the paper to excellence.
Through our unwavering commitment to excellence and our guiding principles, we bring the unique Starbucks Experience to life for every customer through every cup.
It is through hard work and a commitment to excellence that these Americans with immigrant and refugee roots made it to the highest levels of athletic competition.
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And, if you are tickled as much by curiosity as snobbery, the potted histories of families do reveal intriguing patterns that spell warnings of doom or suggest tendencies to excellence.
So telling our children, you have to turn off the TV, stop playing the video games, do your homework, aspiring to excellence in education -- that's the issue that probably we have to work on.
"ACD is a first class example of an entrepreneurial company which is experiencing fast growth in the intensely competitive contact centre marketplace through an ongoing commitment to excellence in the services it provides to customers, " Mr Pearson said.
What Five Guys initially lacked in fancy signage, comfortable seating and expensive equipment, it entirely made up for with excruciating attention to detail, the freshest ingredients and made-from-scratch offerings, and a dogmatic commitment to refining to excellence a focused menu.
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He would say that his government does have a big idea: to bring excellence and choice to the public services through a combination of increased funding and (New Labour buzz-word meaning competition) contestability.
The meeting, held at Rhodes University, was a follow-up to a study undertaken last year by UNESCO to map the media training landscape across the continent and to assess potential excellence according to three broad criteria areas.
If states want money, we're going to reward excellence, and we will show them what has been proven to work in terms of encouraging the kind of critical thinking that all of our children need.
My last visit of the week is to the Excellence Charter School in Brooklyn, an all-boys school for five- to 11-year-olds that will eventually teach right up to age 14.
The dream of being a writer and the price one has to pay for excellence are impossible to demonstrate or, really, even to fathom.
Knowing your strengths and weaknesses may be the most important characteristic to seeking excellence.
Without leadership, even talented and respected workers may not have the overall structure needed to sustain excellence.
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Excellent leaders attract excellent followers, and as a team they are more likely to contribute to organizational excellence.
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Show us how you are reforming your school systems to promote excellence, based on proven ideas out there.
There, in front of their co-workers, their bosses offer witness to their excellence.
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Converting complexity to clarity may be the most critical competency to move us from management effectiveness to leadership excellence.
But hiring on a basis other than merit is unlikely to foster excellence.
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