Quotes About Excellence

I want to test myself, playing with the best and against the best. I can do that at international level, so that's my target and what I want to reach.

Our target is to compete with Ferrari and Mercedes.

My target is to win the World Drivers Championship. I want to be the best.

My target has always been world No.1, I want that.

The only thing that I know is, 'Who's the target, who's the best? Go get him.'

I like to set aggressive targets; without them, you will get ordinary performances.

Every good jam tart deserves the finest preserve.

When someone does a small task beautifully, their whole environment is affected by it.

It's no simple task getting the very best from each and every member of the squad.

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed.

The true function of a writer is to produce a masterpiece and no other task is of any consequence.

Writing a great script - not just a good one, but a great one - is almost an impossible task.

When you have had a taste of excellence, you cannot go back to mediocrity.

To sustain and become a musician of a certain calibre, you need to know and understand music completely. You need to have a good taste in music and should know your good music from mediocre ones.

I'm so impressed by Jennifer Lawrence and Carey Mulligan. They have this exquisite taste. They are very gifted in their ability to make great choices.

If you start something, you shouldn't quit; that is what we were taught. If you're going to play, you might as well play to be your best.

One lesson learned is you've got to finish the scenario with excellence. You just cannot stop. You have to complete this, and I think that's where Apple has taught us all what experience excellence means in the creation of categories.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

When Phil Taylor is in the field - no matter whether it's tiddlywinks or the world championship at Alexandra Palace - he is the man to beat.

That period in the late Eighties and early Nineties was when I was playing my best snooker. My trouble was that I had so many bad habits that my preparation was terrible: people like Steve Davis or Dennis Taylor were model pros.

I don't know of any coach - black, red or green - who could have coached Lawrence Taylor better than Bill Parcells.

When it comes to cakes and puddings, savouries, bread and tea cakes, the English cannot be surpassed.

If you look at the best schools that gets the best results, they teach a broad curriculum but they are also rigorous.

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.