A person with an outstanding attitude makes the best of it while he gets the worst of it.
The Crucifixion and other historical precedents notwithstanding, many of us still believe that outstanding goodness is a kind of armor, that virtue, seen plain and bare, gives pause to criminality. But perhaps it is the other way around.
Outstanding people have one thing in common: an absolute sense of mission
Human beings are infinitely worth studying, especially the peculiarities that often go along with outstanding gifts.
Outstanding leaders have a sense of mission, a belief in themselves and the value of their work.
Any complex activity, if it is to be carried on with any degree of virtuosity, calls for appropriate gifts of intellect and temperament. If they are outstanding and reveal themselves in exceptional achievements, their possessor is called a 'genius'.
The individuals who seem to us most outstanding, who are honored with the name of genius, are those who have proposed to enact the fate of all humanity in their personal existences.
There have been so many outstanding players I've had as team-mates, but if I had to choose I'd choose Giggsy, he can do anything.
Of all the things I am not very good at, living in the real world is perhaps the most outstanding.
Very few people are capable of sustained effort, and that's the reason why we have comparatively few outstanding successes.
Go out of your way to make an outstanding first impression.
The outstanding feature of behavior is that it is often quite easy to recognize but extremely difficult or impossible to describe with precision.
Long ago, I realized that success leaves clues, and that people who produce outstanding results do specific things to create those results. I believed that if I precisely duplicated the actions of others, I could reproduce the same quality of results that they had.
The outstanding doctor constantly emphasized the humanitarian aspect of medical care.
Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?
People always try to be perfect. That's why they don't start anything. Perfection is the lowest standard in the world. Because if you're trying to be perfect, you know you can't be. So what you really have is a standard you can never achieve. You want to be outstanding, not perfect.
Very few writers of distinction in fact were outstanding as undergraduates.
Photography has become an outstanding and indispensable means of propaganda in the revolutionary struggle.
I didn't have outstanding numbers coming out of college and I'm not 6'6 with 230 lbs.
This administration is running like a fine-tuned machine, despite the fact that I can't get my cabinet approved, and they're outstanding people.