Quotes About Excellence

It is most significant i think, that the word discrimination which for ages has been the very name of excellence, is now a bad thing, discrimination which used to be the supreme virtue, has now become the supreme crime, one should not discriminate, ofcourse i personaly think with all the past centuries of western culture that on should always discriminate.

A world-class violinist was once asked how she came to master her instrument. "Planned neglect," she responded. When she began violin, she explained, other necessary work came before practicing violin. It wasn't until she decided to neglect everything else each day until after violin practice that she started becoming a virtuoso.

Success will not lower its standard to us. We must raise our standard to success.

Excellence is always a matter of effort, and no one is capable of more than a certain amount of effort.

college honors, honors in my major, and Phi Beta Kappa.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill - take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edges of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic.

to be the man, you gotta beat the man, WOO!

To be the man, you gotta beat the man.

Sift through my insanity and revel in my greatness

And there'd be no point: Why would he give his life over to this, if it were not for the notion that he could do something great?

Whenever you are setting up a new project, the most important thing is to surround yourself with people who are better than yourself, have different skills and a healthy combination of enthusiasm and experience.

estado tan peligroso que consiste en creer que uno está haciendo bien las cosas si no está peor que la competencia.

It's not Jane Austen, it's not Henry James. But this writer, or writers, well, they're pretty damn good too.

Of all men, Christians should work especially hard, giving more than an honest day's work for a day's wage.

If mind is seen not as a threat but as a guide to emotion, if intellect is seen neither as a guarantee of character nor as an inevitable danger to it, if theory is conceived as something serviceable but not necessarily subordinate or inferior to practice, and if our democratic aspirations are defined in such realistic and defensible terms as to admit of excellence, all these supposed antagonisms lose their force.

trained no fewer than eleven Nobel Prize winners during his life, an unsurpassed record.

In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

Craftsmanship names an enduring, basic human impulse, the desire to do a job well for its own sake.

Issac Stern rule: the better your technique, the more impossible your standards.

The carpenter, lab technician, and conductor are all craftsmen because they are dedicated to good work for its own sake.

High performers not only practice deliberately, they think deliberately.

Self-aware learners create exceptional performances.

Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing. – Benjamin Franklin