Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

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.

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

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

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

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

'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.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

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.

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

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.

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

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

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

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

Mastery in work and in life is about committing yourself to being excellent in everything you do, no matter how small and no matter if no one is watching. Do you practice excellence in your most private moments?

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

Men are in the main alike, but they were made several in order that they might be various. If a low use is to be served, one man will do nearly quite as well as another; if a high one, individual excellence is to be regarded.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.