Best Exemplary Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

Source: (v. 9) Containing correspondence from the time of resigning his commission as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, to that of his inauguration as president

“We're all story-telling creatures, and also I think that's the point about biography because the life is exemplary.”

Thinking Stories Life Is Creatures Biographies Exemplary

Author:Rachel Holmes

“It's a sort of patronizing idea that literature for children has to feature role models of exemplary behavior. I think not only is that bogus, but it leads to really boring books.”

Thinking Children Book Ideas Literature Roles Behavior Models Boring Features Role Models Exemplary Patronizing Boring Books

Author:Mac Barnett

“Mother Teresa- cream. Exemplars, exemplary models we can learn from and become more like, but we don't have to imitate them. We can become more authentically ourselves, impeccable and unselfish, and beneficial to many like a wish fulfilling jewel.”

Mother Wish Models Cream Fulfilling Jewels Beneficial Unselfish Teresa Impeccable Exemplary

Author:Surya Das

“There was really interesting work going on, for example, in the Mississippi bayou, where there were some really exemplary health centers that also became centers with kind of political organizing.”

Kind Political Interesting Example Really Interesting Mississippi Exemplary Bayou

Author:Jill Stein

“A different kind of pleasure surfaced in the aftermath, the pleasure of seeing the towers fall time and again, the experience of being entranced by the visual spectacle, and then also the very graphic forms of public mourning for exemplary citizens (taking place at the same time as the refusal to mourn the undocumented, the foreign, gay and lesbian lives lost there, for example). I am not sure that the guilt over the pleasure re-installed the good citizen.”

Kind Different Form Fall Lost Pleasure Seeing Example Citizens Gay Guilt All Time Not Sure Mourning Visuals Different Kinds Towers Refusal Mourn Graphic Aftermath Good Citizen Exemplary

Author:Judith Butler

“All of great leaders evidence four basic qualities that are central to their ability to lead: adaptive capacity, the ability to engage others through shared meaning, a distinctive voice, and unshakeable integrity. These four qualities mark all exemplary leaders, whatever their age, gender, ethnicity, or race.”

Age Voice Ability Race Quality Leader Four Integrity Evidence Capacity Mark Gender Great Leader Distinctive Ethnicity Exemplary Adaptive

Author:Warren G. Bennis

“Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.”

Found Study Teacher Teaching Lessons Ordinary Originals Management Excellence Profound Insight Retirement Mediocrity Exemplary

Book:Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

Source: Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration

“What I would like to do is to leave behind a sustainable entity of a set of companies that operate in an exemplary manner in terms of ethics, values and continue what our ancestors left behind.”

Values Left Term Behinds Company Ethics Ancestor Entity Left Behind Exemplary

Author:Ratan Tata

“By international standards, many of the U.K.'s policies for civil society are exemplary. However, there are concerns about constraints on civil liberties - particularly restrictions on free assembly and about the rising tide of everyday regulation has seriously impeded community activity - from organising street parties to helping children.”

“I never told my own religion nor scrutinized that of another. I never attempted to make a convert, nor wished to change another's creed. I am satisfied that yours must be an excellent religion to have produced a life of such exemplary virtue and correctness. For it is in our lives, and not from our words, that our religion must be judged.”

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Book:Jefferson: Political Writings

Source: Jefferson: Political Writings

“All his life he would hold this moment as exemplary of what love was. It was not wanting anything more, nor was it expecting people to exceed what they had just accomplished; it was simply feeling so complete.”

People Moments Feelings Accomplished Expecting Exceed Exemplary

Author:John Irving

“It's been many years since I had such an exemplary vegetable.”

Years Vegetables Exemplary

Author:Jane Austen

“The aim of education is to develop resources in the child that will contribute to his well-being as long as life endures; to develop power of self-mastery that he may never be a slave to indulgence or other weaknesses, to develop [strong] manhood, beautiful womanhood that in every child and every youth may be found at least the promise of a friend, a companion, one who later may be fit for husband or wife, an exemplary father or a loving intelligent mother, one who can face life with courage, meet disaster with fortitude, and face death without fear.”

“Uniformity, in its motives, its goals, its far-ranging consequences, is the natural enemy of poetry, not to mention the enemy of trees, the soil, the exemplary life therein.”

Goal Natural Enemy Tree Consequence Motive Soil Uniformity Exemplary Natural Enemies

Book:Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

Source: Cooling Time: An American Poetry Vigil

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