“Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.” LittlesBitsEffortProgressLittle BitExcellenceAverageProportionProgression Author:Paul J. Meyer
“The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it.” LittlesDesireWishExcellenceAttributesMoral Excellence Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
“We cannot by a little verbal sophistry confound the qualities of different minds, nor force opposite excellences into a union by all the intolerance in the world. If we have a taste for some one precise style or manner, we may keep it to ourselves and let others have theirs. If we are more catholic in our notions, and want variety of excellence and beauty, it is spread abroad for us to profusion in the variety of books and in the several growth of men's minds, fettered by no capricious or arbitrary rules.” IfsMenWorldWantMindMayLittlesBookDifferentForceGrowthQualityStyleTasteOppositesCatholicUnionsExcellenceNotionSpreadVarietyIntolerancePreciseArbitraryCapriciousSophistryDifferent Minds Author:William Hazlitt
“Criticism is now become mere hangman's work, and meddles only with the faults of authors ; nay, the critic is disgusted less with their absurdities than excellence ; and you cannot displease him more than in leaving him little room for his malice.” LittlesRoomsCriticismFaultsExcellenceMereCriticsLeavingAbsurdityMaliceDisgustedHangmanLeaving Him Book:The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life Source: The Works of John Dryden: In Verse and Prose, with a Life