Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. 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.

True greatness consists in being great in little things.

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.

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

Trying to do well and trying to beat others are two different things. Excellence and victory are conceptually distinct . . . and are experienced differently.

To this end, nothing is to be more carefully consulted than plainness. In a lady's attire this is the single excellence; for to be what some people call fine, is the same vice, in that case, as to be florid is in writing or speaking.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

Useful manual labour, intelligently performed, is the means par excellence for developing the intellect.

Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

Universal violence compels the language to be mute . . . . Silence is not only a metaphor of Hemingway's work; it is also the source of its formal excellence, its integrity.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In those areas a knowledge workers should not take on work, jobs and assignments. It takes far more energy to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

We believe this combination of excellence in operations and strong execution of our strategy is critical to achieve our vision. We will continue to focus on both in future as well.

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

We don't settle for anything less than excellence.

We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

We must, then, apply the principle of Doubt to Civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

We usually get what we anticipate.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

We will always tend to fulfill our own expectation of ourselves.

[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.

Whatever you do, don't do it halfway.

What is excellent, As God lives, is permanent; Hearts are dust, hearts' loves remain, Heart's love will meet thee again.

When a book raises your spirit, and inspires you with noble and manly thoughts, seek for no other test of its excellence. It is good, and made by a good workman.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done, he is dead,--dead in trespasses and sin of blear-eyed vanity.

What's wrong with creative block? Might it not just be that periods--even extended ones--of productive hiatus are essential mechanisms of gestation designed to help us attain higher standards in our pursuit of creative excellence?

When one of a culture's guiding credos is that "all men are created equal," any person who, say, becomes an expert on, say, nuclear weapons or, say, ecology, i.e., anyone who distinguishes himself through mental excellence, is a nuisance.

When the original is well chosen and judiciously copied, the imitator often arrives at excellence which he could never have attained without direction; for few are formed with abilities to discover new possibilities of excellence, and to distinguish themselves by means never tried before.

When u have this spirit of excellence, u do the right thing always :even if no one is watching you.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

When you hold out for high standards, people are impressed-but they don't always like you for it. Not everybody will be on your side in your struggle to do what's right and ethical. In fact, sometimes even you won't be on your side. You'll wrestle with inner conflict, torn between what you should do and what you want to do. You'll also aggravate other people. Seems when you walk the straight and narrow you always step on someone's toes. Don't count on the ethics of excellence to make you popular.