Love brings to light a lover's noble and hidden qualities-his rare and exceptional traits: it is thus liable to be deceptive of his normal qualities.
I have learned to keep to myself how exceptional I am.
An exceptional life isn't the result of lucky breaks but excellent choices.
The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely.
Remember that other people may be totally wrong. But they don't think so. Don't condemn them. Any fool can do that. Try to understand them. Only wise, tolerant, exceptional people even try to do that.
I think monogamy is a little unnatural, if I'm totally honest. You change. Things alter. It's the exception rather than the rule and I think it's exceptional to cope with it and manage it. It's hard work.
There is no way of making a business successful that can vie with the policy of promoting those who render exceptional service.
When the exceptional historian comes along, you have a poet.
Charles Burchfield was exceptional. As such an accomplished artist, he had limited previous association with academia and teaching.
The mountains are exceptional places for, as the natural environment is concerned, they are the concentration of the wildest possible variety of all natural phenomena and forms. They are somehow a concentration of the truth of nature or even I'd say its essence.
Every thought and every word you speak is an affirmation. So why not choose to use only positive affirmations to create an exceptional life? I know you can do it!
It is a curious fact that personal possessions take on fictitious values and exceptional charms when the owner, no matter how generous, is faced with giving them away or even selling them (which usually amounts to the same thing).
The position of the Americans is quite exceptional, and it may be believed that no democratic people will ever be placed in a similar one.
There are exceptional people out there who are capable of starting epidemics. All you have to do is find them.
Judge [Samuel] Alito has a reputation for being an exceptional and honest judge devoted to the rule of law, as well as being a man of integrity.
[About Pierre de Fermat] It cannot be denied that he has had many exceptional ideas, and that he is a highly intelligent man. For my part, however, I have always been taught to take a broad overview of things, in order to be able to deduce from them general rules, which might be applicable elsewhere.
Frankly, I've never considered my own figure so exceptional; until quite recently, I seldom gave it any thought at all
If you look at the world-class performers at the top of the game, their numbers are just exceptional and that is the level he is at.
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional.
Remember, grab you're future with both hands and mold it into what you want it to be. It's the determined, who create the life they want, while the idle sit by and watch it fade away into nothingness. The future belongs to the exceptional individuals, who can see the light of the future, at the end of the tunnel.