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Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: philosopher
Nationality: spanish
Birth: May 9, 1883 - October 18, 1955

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Excellence Woman Man Others More

Some people see writing as a white-collar career, but I've always approached it as a blue-collar writer.

Joe R. Lansdale

People Writing Career Some People

Speaking from personal experience, I watch zero shows when they air. The only shows I watch live are awards shows or sports. Shows like 'True Detective' and 'Game Of Thrones,' I watch every episode, but I don't watch them as they air, and I think that's becoming the case for people more.

Live Sports Experience People Game

Call no man happy until he is dead, but only lucky.

Man Happy Lucky Dead Call Only

For a truly effective social campaign, a brand needs to embrace the first principles of marketing, which involves brand definition and consistent storytelling.

Simon Mainwaring

Brand Marketing Embrace Storytelling

We have learned the need to be flexible or to have flexible forces, agile forces, who can move quickly, secure themselves when they arrive in a location, assess the needs of a given mission, and move to that mission.

Mission Flexible Need Location Move

The Minnesota Republican hierarchy didn't want me to run against their incumbent in 2000; they didn't know who I was. And once many party bigwigs did get to know me, they weren't sure that I could win the seat.

Michele Bachmann

Me Win Party Know Want Run

Some writers - most, I suspect - write in isolation. I think I'd always found that quite difficult.

Michael Morpurgo

Isolation Think Write Difficult Most

I'm very Asian, and also my mom raised me to be polite and to eat whatever is put in front of me. I actually enjoy snails a lot. And I've eaten sea urchin and that shebang.

Sea Me Mom Enjoy Eat Whatever

Success is the most important to many, to me it's just a bonus.

Success Me Important Success Is Just

I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.

Time Too Much Way Watching Japanese

Democracy is never a thing done. Democracy is always something that a nation must be doing. What is necessary now is one thing and one thing only that democracy become again democracy in action, not democracy accomplished and piled up in goods and gold.

Archibald MacLeish

Democracy Gold Action Doing Done

Some African leaders actually dare to suggest that democracy is a concept alien to traditional African society. This is one of the most impudent political blasphemies I can think of.

Democracy Society Think Political

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