Quotes About Excellence

First of all, try to have the highest of ethics and to be open and truthful about things, not hiding. If you have to hide something for company reasons, at least explain what you're doing. Don't mislead people. Know in your heart that you are a good person with good goals because that will carry over to your own self-confidence and your belief in your engineering abilities. Always seek excellence: make your product better than the average person would.

All he asked of life was the best of everything.

As she put it, "All he asked of life was the best of everything.

You should only read what is truly good or what is frankly bad.

It was not brilliant bull-fighting. It was only perfect bull-fighting.

I don't have to be proud of it. I only have to do it well. – Thomas Hudson

There is no such thing as great writing - there is only great re-writing!

How good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Que va," the boy said. "There are many good fishermen and some great ones. But there is only you.

I have tried to write by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Qué va, the boy said. There are many good fisherman and some great ones. But there is only you.

There was a great deal of material that Hemingway wrote for A Moveable Feast that he decided to leave out, acting "by the old rule that how good a book is should be judged by the man who writes it by the excellence of the material that he eliminates.

Write the best story you can and throw out all the good lines.

That's what life is about, doing as good as you can. When the times comes for them to lay you down in the long black hole, they can say one thing: 'He did as good as he could.' That's the best thing you can say for a man. Horse breaker or yard sweeper, let them say the poor boy did it good as he could.

But if you choose the way of the warrior, living a life of service, it will demand of you the best you have. You may not need to be great, but the world needs your greatness. Whatever God has placed within you that could ever be described as great was never meant for you, anyway. It's a stewardship that has been given to you. Greatness never belongs to the one who carries it; it belongs to the world that needs it.

You need to act like your life depends on it, because it's never just your life involved. You need to never settle for less because the world desperately needs everything you can bring to the table.

The shift that happens when you refuse to remain or be defined by the average comes when you cross a line others would consider madness.

With practice, you build the road to accomplish your goals. Excellence lives in attention to detail. Give your all, all the time. Don't save anything for the walk home.

a man needs to aspire to greatness and if he gives up on his hope for excellence, his soul dies

It's a terrible mistake to let the perfect get in the way of the good. If you wait to publish until you have written a great book, you will never publish anything. Great books happen by chance, not by design. The wise writer writes the best he can and leaves it to posterity to decide about greatness.

Nesses estúdios decorria muita colaboração; conta-nos Vasari que quando, certo dia, Leonardo pintou um anjo numa obra de Verrocchio e se saiu melhor que o mestre, Verrocchio desistiu pura e simplesmente do pincel e deixou de pintar. Já fora ultrapassado.

He nothing common did or meanUpon that memorable scene,But with his keener eyeThe axe's edge did try.

There's a word to describe giving it your best shot every time - it's called professionalism.

I'm not precisely saying that a really good board meeting at the MLA (Museums, Libraries and Archives Coucil) makes me want to go and write poetry, but there is a pleasure in doing that sort of thing well.