| 1907 - 630 pages
...than any other life. The same concentration was required of the finished scholar and of the beginner. Nothing but the passion for excellence, the domination of a single purpose which admitted of no foreign intrusion, could suffice for him who would reach the heights. In no other way... | |
| Frederick Septimus Kelly - 2004 - 412 pages
...limits there can be no life and that to have comprehended these limits is to have transcended them.' 'Nothing but the passion for excellence, the domination...can suffice for him who would reach the heights.' 'When the passion for excellence is once in full swing, it knows no limits. It dominates as no baser... | |
| Nicholas Murray Butler, Frank Pierrepont Graves, William McAndrew - 1907 - 574 pages
...than any other life. The same concentration was required of the finished scholar and of the beginner. Nothing but the passion for excellence, the domination of a single purpose which admitted of no foreign intrusion, could suffice for him who would reach the heights. In no other way... | |
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