exceptional cases Quotes

Talent is never enough. With few exceptions the best players are the hardest workers.

I believe it would demean Nobel Prizes if they were awarded to research students, except in very exceptional cases.

It's always good in science to say "Well how do you know that?" and "Are you really sure?" and "Could there be an exceptional case?"

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.

It may be an extreme example brought about by abnormal circumstances - but the criteria of human rights kick in, surely, precisely when the conditions are extreme and the situation is abnormal.

The 1st question the effective decision-maker asks is: 'Is this a generic situation or an exception?'

Larger-than-life characters make up about .01 percent of the world's population.

The freedom that will be used by only one man in a million may be more important to society and more beneficial to the majority than any freedom that we all use.

It is useless to talk about Constitutional means for a condition of things never contemplated by any constitution.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

Say what you like, but such things do happen - not often, but they do happen.

This is a slow business to have success in. There are exceptions, but for the most part it's kind of like the last writer standing.... I've got gray. I've got plenty of gray. I'm creating a career slowly, like a coral reef.

I don't think anything I've written has been done in under six or eight drafts. Usually it takes me a few years to write a book. 'World's Fair' was an exception. It seemed to be a particularly fluent book as it came. I did it in seven months. I think what happened in that case is that God gave me a bonus book.

The extraordinary business does not require good management.

A leader knows who is outside of the system and needs special help.

Extraordinary situations require an out-of-box thinking. Conventionalists cannot find such solutions.

Of course, the entire effort is to put myself Outside the ordinary range Of what are called statistics. A hundred are killed In the outer suburbs. Well, well, I carry on.

General principles should not be based on exceptional cases.

I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.

Never inject a man into the top, if it can be avoided. In a big organization, to have to do that, I think, is a reflection on management, Of course there are always exceptional cases.

It is possible to get an education at a university. It has been done; not often.

We have funny ideas about how people in mental institutions act. We think of drooling and people going booga-booga and climbing the wall. These are exceptional cases.

I know, my dear Watson, that you share my love of all that is bizarre and outside the conventions and humdrum routine of daily life.

What keeps me going is those cases, maybe ten a year, where I can make a difference.

Manage by exception.Only require reporting when there is a deviation from the plan.