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Not a trophy, a habit nobody catches you practicing.
means The quality of being outstandingly good at something, consistently, not just on the one day someone was watching.
from From Latin excellere, 'to rise above, surpass' — built from ex- ('out, forth') plus a root related to celsus, 'high, lofty' (the same high ground that gives us 'celebrity' a cousin's nod, not a proven twin). So excellence is etymologically just height: the state of towering over the ordinary, whether or not anyone's standing below to admire the view.
- aristotle's version
- he called it a habit, not an act
- not perfection
- excellence tolerates mistakes, perfection doesn't
- root cousin
- shares roots with excel and celsius, oddly
- misquoted line
- we are what we repeatedly do is often misattributed to him