Excellence Quotes

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  • It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.

  • For millions, Roger Ebert will be remembered as a writer and television personality who brought a sense of passion and excellence to his craft. For me, he is a man who fused joy and courage as few others ever have. My life was enriched by having such a friend; it is poorer for losing such a friend.

  • The perfect is the enemy of the good.

    "La Bégueule". Poem by Voltaire, 1772.
  • Instead of worrying about what people say of you, why not spend time trying to accomplish something they will admire.

    Success   Fear   People  
  • To accomplish excellence or anything outstanding, you must listen to that whisper which is heard by you alone.

  • Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

    Hands   Mind   Excellence  
  • Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

  • Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

    Hannah Arendt (2013). “The Human Condition: Second Edition”, p.49, University of Chicago Press
  • Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

    Robert F. Kennedy (1998). “Make Gentle the Life of the World: The Vision of Robert F. Kennedy”, Harcourt
  • The truth of an upright man must be accepted on his own terms. Moreover, since natures vary, we must agree that all the beauties of human excellence may be fostered by faiths that we do not share.

    Victor Hugo (1980). “Les misérables”, Viking Pr
  • Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

  • PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.

    Ambrose Bierce (2016). “The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World”, p.161, 谷月社
  • Your attitude is an expression of your values, beliefs and expectations.

    Brian Tracy (2008). “Universal Laws of Success”, p.9, Jaico Publishing House
  • Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

  • The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.

    Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
  • I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

  • It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

  • It is most certainly a good thing that the world knows only the beautiful opus but not its origins, not the conditions of its creation; for if people knew the sources of the artist's inspiration, that knowledge would often confuse them, alarm them, and thereby destroy the effects of excellence. strange hours! strangely enervating labor! bizarrely fertile intercourse of the mind with a body!

  • I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

    Mind   Excellence   Use  
    Interview with Dr. Stephen Edelson, www.autism.com. February 1, 1996.
  • Part of the beauty and much of the moral seriousness of sport derives from the severe justice of strenuous play in a circumscribed universe of rules that protect the integrity of competition. Records are worth recording, and worth striving to surpass, because they serve as benchmarks of excellence achieved under the pressure of competition.

    Sports   Integrity   Play  
    George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.47, Simon and Schuster
  • Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

    Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.163, Simon and Schuster
  • Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

    Fall   Envy   Perfection  
  • Our form of government does not enter into rivalry with the institutions of others. Our government does not copy our neighbors', but is an example to them. It is true that we are called a democracy, for the administration is in the hands of the many and not of the few. But while there exists equal justice to all and alike in their private disputes, the claim of excellence is also recognized; and when a citizen is in any way distinguished, he is preferred to the public service, not as a matter of privilege, but as the reward of merit

  • To push for excellence today without continuing to push for access for less privileged students is to undermine the crucial but incomplete gains that have been made. Equity and excellence cannot be divided.

    Ernest L. Boyer (1997). “Ernest L. Boyer, Selected Speeches, 1979-1995”, Jossey-Bass
  • There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

    Law   Giving   Excellence  
    Jacques Ellul (2009). “Money and Power”, p.110, Wipf and Stock Publishers
  • The piano is the social instrument par excellence... drawing-room furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, the most massive of the devices by which the young are tortured in the name of education and the grown-up in the name of entertainment.

    Music   Names   Piano  
    Jacques Barzun (1984). “Critical Questions: On Music and Letters, Culture and Biography, 1940-1980”, p.54, University of Chicago Press
  • I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

    God   Work   Technology  
  • If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

  • There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.

    "2010 BPM and Workflow Handbook" by Layna Fischer, Future Strategies Inc., (p. 178), 2010.
  • The heights by great men reached and kept were not attained by sudden flight, but they, while their companions slept, were toiling upward in the night.

    'The Ladder of Saint Augustine' (1850)
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