Best 1930 quotes in «excellence quotes» category

A combination of the qualities of the scholar, the master cook, the painter, the gastronomer, the sportsman and the pantologist, assisted by the skill of the bookmaker and etcher, will be required to compose the cookbook par excellence.

Adequacy is the enemy of excellence.

Advent is the spiritual season of hope par excellence, and in this season the whole Church is called to be hope, for itself and for the world.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

A great man la an abstraction of some one excellence; but whoever fancies himself an abstraction of excellence, so far from being great, may be sure that he is a blockhead, equally ignorant of excellence or defect of himself or others.

A great NOW will be a great WAS! A bad NOW will always be a bad WAS, and all you can hope for is a Great GONNA BE!

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

Affectation naturally counterfeits those excellences which are placed at the greatest distance from possibility of attainment, because, knowing our own defects, we eagerly endeavor to supply them with artificial excellence.

All human excellence is but comparative — there are persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

A Leader must possess credibility, imagination, enthusiasm, vision, foresight, a sense of timing, a passion for excellence and be willing to share.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

A lot is gained through experience, but experience teaches some and not others. Effectiveness and excellence, whether or not they were attained by simply having the knack or through the school of hard knocks, is really what you want to reward.

Although we may come from vastly different stories and very different walks of life, we are one people who possess common values and common ideals; who celebrate individual excellence but also share a recognition that together, we can accomplish great and wonderful things we can't accomplish alone.

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Always define your area of excellence. Establish the area where you will be the best.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do.

Always seek to excel yourself. Put yourself in competition with yourself each day. Each morning look back upon your work of yesterday and then try to beat it

A man reacheth not to excellence with one language.

a masterpiece doesn't so much transcend its time as perpetuate it; it keeps its moment alive.

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.

An achievement-oriented culture is very pro-employee - it's so much more fun than one that isn't. Excellence is a tremendous amount of fun; mediocrity is not.

All religions promise a reward beyond life, in eternity, for excellences of the will or heart, but none for excellences of the head or understanding.

An artist who brings to his work a mind tolerably furnished with the general principles of art, and a taste formed upon the works of good artists – in short, who knows in what excellence consists - will, with the assistance of models... be an overmatch for the greatest painter that ever lived who should be debarred such advantages.

Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.

And he, who servilely creeps after sense, Is safe, but ne'er will reach an excellence.

An oyster, that marvel of delicacy, that concentration of sapid excellence, that mouthful bwefore all other mouthfuls, who first had faith to believe it, and courage to execute? The exterior is not persuasive.

America is hope. It is compassion. It is excellence. It is valor.

An organization which just perpetuates today's level of vision, excellence, and accomplishment has lost the capacity to adapt.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Anyone can be a teacher or professor, but not everyone can influence you to strive for excellence and make a difference in the world around you.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

Anything worth doing is worth doing well.

As far as I'm concerned, the sheriff's department has done an excellent job in Savoy. The department has responded to the needs of our citizens, so I don't want to mess with a system that is working well for us.

A poet is a bird of unearthly excellence, who escapes from his celestial realm arrives in this world warbling. If we do not cherish him, he spreads his wings and flies back into his homeland.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

As far as the job of President goes, its rewarding and I've given before this group the definition of happiness for the Greeks. I'll define it again: the full use of your powers along lines of excellence. I find, therefore, that the Presidency provides some happiness.

Aspiration lifts the life; groveling lowers it. When we are striving for excellence in everything we do the entire life grows and expands, but if we allow our standards to drop, there is a natural progression that follows, a tendency for a downward effort in all that we do thereafter.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old.

Attain and maintain a reputation, for it is the usufruct of fame. A stiff climb, for it is the issue of excellence, as rare as mediocrity is common.

At what point did we begin to think excellence is offensive to God?