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Definition of Exceptional
Exceptional

Forming an exception; not ordinary; uncommon; rare; hence, better than the average; superior.

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An, Average, Better, Exception, Forming, Hence, Not, Ordinary, Rare, Superior, Than, The, Uncommon


Exceptional Quotations

Honor means that a man is not exceptional; fame, that he is. Fame is something which must be won; honor, only something which must not be lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.
Norman Mailer

I worked with such concentration and focus and I had hundreds of obscure engineering or programming things in my head. I was just real exceptional in that way.
Steve Wozniak

To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail.
Giorgio Armani

I am convinced that, except in a few extraordinary cases, one form or another of an unhappy childhood is essential to the formation of exceptional gifts.
Thornton Wilder

As children we recognized that we belonged to an unusual, even exceptional, family, but the effect was different on each of us.
David Rockefeller

I believe that history has shape, order, and meaning; that exceptional men, as much as economic forces, produce change; and that passe abstractions like beauty, nobility, and greatness have a shifting but continuing validity.
Camille Paglia

You know, my parents have always been incredibly supportive. I'm an only child, so we're very close. There's just the three of us. They're exceptional parents but also great friends. My father was able to take his hobby, photography, and turn it into a beautiful career. So when they saw how much I loved acting, they were 100 percent behind me.
Sophia Bush

This woman's work is exceptional. Too bad she's not a man.
Edouard Manet

Women, by their nature, are not exceptional chess players: they are not great fighters.
Garry Kasparov

Exceptional Translations

exceptional in Afrikaans is uitsonderlik
exceptional in Dutch is uitzonderlijk
exceptional in Italian is eccezionale
exceptional in Norwegian is usedvanlig
exceptional in Portuguese is excepcional
exceptional in Spanish is insolito, excepcional
exceptional in Swedish is enstaka, motstycke


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