Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

If you desire a man to tell you comfortable lies about your prowess, and so fetter any hope of true excellence, I'm sure you may find one anywhere. Not all prisons are made of iron bars. Some are made of feather beds.

If you don't do it excellently, don't do it at all. Because if it's not excellent, it won't be profitable or fun.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

If you strive for excellence, success will follow

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.

I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.

I like cinematic art that doesn't have to include violence as the main meat of emotion. Now, excellence in cinema is based on murder, guns. Tarantino bores me. Even though he is very appealing and very facile about putting elements of pop culture into his work. But it kinds of dates it, right?

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

I'm not interested in a marketable product: I'm interested in what I know from my life experience to be standards of excellence

In a well-written book we are presented with the maturest reflections, or the happiest flights of a mind of uncommon excellence. It is impossible that we can be much accustomed to such companions without attaining some resemblance to them.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.

'In Search of Excellence' - even the title - is a reminder that business isn't dry, dreary, boring, or by the numbers. Life at work can be cool - and work that's cool isn't confined to Tiger Woods, Yo-Yo Ma, or Tom Hanks. It's available to all of us and any of us.

I never had a policy; I have just tried to do my very best each and every day.

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

In seasons of tumult and discord bad men have most power; mental and moral excellence require peace and quietness.

I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided between the sexes.

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from knowing who you are.

Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price has to be paid, but rather as a complement to them without which they cannot be fully consummated.

Intensity is the price of excellence.

I strive to make the next painting better than the last one. That's why the most exciting thing to me is the next one.

In writing, as in life, faults are endured without disgust when they are associated with transcendent merit, and may be sometimes recommended to weak judgments by the lustre which they obtain from their union with excellence; but it is the business of those who presume to superintend the taste or morals of mankind to separate delusive combinations, and distinguish that which may be praised from that which can only be excused.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.

I think the most extraordinary thing about fans is the level of excellence that they show in the work that they do. I mean, if you go onto the internet and see some of the fan videos that have been put together, they're just extraordinary; they could be programmes in their own right.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is important that voters be as informed as possible when they enter the polls May 9 to determine who has the experience, integrity and vision to lead Nebraska to excellence.

It is only Christianity, the great bond of love and duty to God, that makes any existence valuable or even tolerable.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.