Als / Than Exzellenz / Excellence Geschenk / Gift Lieber / Rather Lügen / Lies Wert / Value
For me, I'd rather have an intense experience than not.
I'd rather have a lot of talent and a little experience than a lot of experience and a little talent.
I turn to poems to find spaces that might enlarge, rather than distill, experience.
Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.
I'd rather be called King than other things I've been called.
I'd rather fight a buzzsaw than dance.
This is the great vice of academicism, that it is concerned with ideas rather than with thinking.
Nothing is to be rated higher than the value of the day.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
