“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather we have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then is not an act, but a habit.”—Aristotle
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Exactly so – and the reason, by the way, for the title of Flannery O’Connor’s collection of letters, which is called “Habits of Being”!
Morning Linda:
Thank you. Excellence then I understand is more a verb than a noun. Excellence is more about action than about talking—“walking the walk, versus talking the talk.”
Have a great day,
Omar.-