Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

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

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.

'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.

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

Intensity is the price of excellence.

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.

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.

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

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.

It is my sincere hope that hospitals across Indiana, and America, continue to strive for excellence when it comes to providing medical care. This proposed rule will be harmful to communities who wish to upgrade their medical facilities.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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 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'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 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 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 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.

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

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.