Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

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

It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.

It is only through raising expectations and striving for excellence that our children can reach their full potential.

It is quality rather than quantity that matters.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

It is those who have this imperative demand for the best in their natures, and who will accept nothing short of it, that holds the banners of progress, that set the standards, the ideals, for others.

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.

It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

It takes time to create excellence. If it could be done quickly, more people would do it.

I've come to realize that companionship and mild competition can help build quality and lay the ground for excellence.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence.

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

I would rather be the author of one original thought than conqueror of a hundred battles. Yet moral excellence is so much superior to intellectual, that I ought to esteem one virtue more valuable than a hundred original thoughts.

I wished that my job was baking muffins in a muffin shop, where all I'd have to do was crack eggs and measure flour and make change, and nobody could abuse me, and where they'd even expect me to be fat. Every flab roll and cellulite crinkle would serve as testimony to the excellence of my baked goods

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

I would urge that the yeast of education is the idea of excellence, and the idea of excellence comprises as many forms as there are individuals, each of whom develops his own image of excellence. The school must have as one of its principal functions the nurturing of images of excellence.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

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.

I would venture to affirm that a man cannot attain excellence if he satisfy the ignorant and not those of his own craft, and if he be not 'singular' or 'distant,' or whatever you like to call him.

Know where to find the information and how to use it - That's the secret of success.

Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

Lasting achievement, whatever the endeavor, comes from a commitment to excellence every step of the way.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Limitation of means is a precondition of excellence. Creative freedom chooses its limitations. Destructive freedom rejects them heedlessly.

Life is like a dogsled race. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.

Life is teleology par excellence; it is the intrinsic striving towards a goal, and the living organism is a system of directed aims which seek to fulfill themselves.

Link yourself to your potential, not to your past.

Light is the photographic medium par excellence; it is to the photographer what words are to the writer; color and paint to the painter; wood, metal, stone, or clay to the sculptor.

'Live each day as if it is your last,' said Mahatma Gandhi. 'Learn as if you'll live forever.' This is what I'm passionate about. It is precisely this. It is this inextinguishable, undaunted appetite for learning and experience, no matter how risible, no matter how esoteric, no matter how seditious it might seem.

Many evil men are rich, and good men poor, but we shall not exchange with them our excellence for riches.

Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.

Make your life a masterpiece; imagine no limitations on what you can be, have or do

Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.

Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

Love is the bond of perfection.