Quotes About Excellence

I definitely want to go down as the greatest of all time. That's what anyone who has ever wanted something believes.

Once that bell rings, all I can do is perform at the best of my abilities and at the top of my game.

I want to show who I am, show my best tennis, show why I'm there, why I belong.

I don't think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

I do not think that there are any limits to how excellent we could make life seem.

Un hombre sabe tocar, otro puede hacer de un pueblo una gran ciudad, y el que no puede hacer ni una cosa ni otra merece que le echen del mundo a patadas; evitar este castigo a sido sin duda lo que ha dado lugar al nacimiento del reino de los críticos.

If you're a writer you're bound to write something fine, at least now and then, off and on.

Leadership is lifting a person's vision to higher sights, the raising of a person's performance to a higher standard, the building of a personality beyond its normal limitations. Peter F. Drucker and Joseph A. Maciariello, Management: Revised Edition, 2008, p. 288.

Geniuses and prophets do not usually excel in professional learning, and their originality, if any, is often due precisely to the fact that they do not.

Half, Not Half-Assed

I can write faster than anybody who can write better, and I can write better than anybody who can write faster.

Du mußt nicht groß sein, um Großes zu vollbringen.

The pursuit of excellence with unrestrained passion can lead to the accomplishment of wonders with unsurpassed joy.

You tell me of degrees of perfection to which human nature is capable of arriving, and I believe it, but at the same time lament that our admiration should arise from the scarcity of the instances.

Whatever you are, be a good one.

The growing tip is a small proportion of mankind. They will carry on. As a matter of fact, that is what is happening with the whole humanistic synthesis now; the groundbreaking is done by a few people, and most of the stuff is just routine or mediocr

Don't leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. Why settle for 'Three Blind Mice' when you can play the 'Gloria'?

I want to try and be terrific. Even for an hour.

Excellence is the product of high aspirations and low ego.

Being original doesn't require being first. It just means being different and better.

Ser original no implica ser el primero... solo significa ser diferente y mejor.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?

Passion is the genesis of genius.