Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

Begin now what you will be hereafter.

Basically, to lead without a title is to derive your power within the organisation not from your position but from your competence, effectiveness, relationships, excellence, innovation and ethics.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.

Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.