Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

I don't want to cower at somebody's interpretation of what I'm about. I'm supposed to be doing it and I'm going to throw this word out there-with excellence. There's no reason for me to give anything less that all I've got in everything I do. That's scriptural. For me, that's the foundation of who I am.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

If an Artist love his Art for its own sake, he will delight in excellence wherever he meets it, as well in the work of another as in his own.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

If there is no passion in your life, then have you really lived? Find your passion, whatever it may be. Become it, and let it become you and you will find great things happen FOR you, TO you and BECAUSE of you.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

If we want to make something really superb on this planet, there is nothing whatever that can stop us.

If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul implying a rational principle, and the function of a good man to be the good and noble performance of these, and if any action is well performed when it is performed in accordance with the appropriate excellence human good turns out to be activity of the soul in accordance with virtue, and if there are more than one virtue, in accordance with the best and most complete.

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 strive for excellence, success will follow

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

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

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

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 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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 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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

'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.

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.