One kind of parent wants their children to reach their potential by developing their talents, forming strong relationships, achieving valuable goals, and having a satisfying life – excellence as flourishing.
While writing and speaking about my own book, Mogul, Mom & Maid, I've met hundreds and hundreds of women who tell me they're not interested in achieving career excellence; they're interested in achieving life excellence.
A proud moment in a life of excellence and achievement, you would imagine, but you'd be wrong.
In "the best state," however, the citizen is "one who is able and chooses to be governed and to govern with a view to the life of excellence" (III.13, 1284a1 3).
In contrast, in Aristotle's "best constitution," each and every citizen will possess moral virtue and the equipment to carry it out in practice, and thereby attain a life of excellence and complete happiness (see VII.13.1332a32 8).
The Society works to fulfill its mission through activities that create community, support student life, reward excellence, and encourage lifelong learning.
Harvard Kennedy School Professor and CNN political anlayst David Gergen, who also appearded on the program, disagreed: "I just don't understand why someone who has lived a life of excellence, someone who has distinguished herself in role after role, including that of solicitor general, can possibly be described as someone who is sort of mediocre.
KPMG, the audit, tax and advisory firm, won AWLP's much coveted Work-Life Innovative Excellence Award earlier this year for their program that encourages teams to arrange a rotating schedule for employees to use the gym during lunch, or for each member to choose a day of the week to leave early.
"Dr. McNair was a champion for education and his life epitomized educational excellence.
FRANKFURT — For the first time in a long life of technocratic excellence, the president of the European Central Bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, finds both his judgment and his credibility in question.
Mr. Erickson said the university had decided to keep Mr. Paterno's name on the library because it "symbolizes the substantial and lasting contributions to the academic life and educational excellence that the Paterno family has made to Penn State University".
