Quotes About Excellence

A team will perform well only if peak performance is elicited from the individuals in it.

Turning the workplace into a playing field can turn our subordinates into "athletes" dedicated to performing at the limit of their capabilities—the key to making our team consistent winners.

The one thing an MBO system should provide par excellence is focus. This can only happen if we keep the number of objectives small. In practice, this is rare, and here, as elsewhere, we fall victim to our inability to say "no"—in this case, to too many objectives.

A team will perform well only if peak performance is elicited from the individuals in it. This

It's harder to be the best of class in several fields than in just one

We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

There was no tolerance in the Navy for the weaklings and the incompetents who would not learn to keep themselves and their uniforms clean; who were late on watch; or who failed to master the basics demanded by the Navy.

It doesn't matter what you do, just try to be the best at it

is not only the execution and the excellence of the craft that determine the quality of a witcher's sword. As with mysterious elven or gnomish blades, whose secret has been lost, the mysterious power of a witcher's sword is bound to the hand and skill of the witcher wielding it. And, forsooth, owing to that magic's mysteries it is greatly potent against the Dark Powers.

There are plenty of tapestries like that in Beauclair. The master who wove them was a true master. But he drank an awful lot. As artists do.

You will become a lighthouse of personal growth and power, and by your example and leadership, you will prevent many a worthy man from crashing his life upon the rocks of mediocrity.

I now know that criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

and his legacy. "If you are doing what everyone else is doing, you are doing something wrong. Why? Because most people are not obtaining results that are considered extraordinary.

if you want to become a person that others want to be around, you must always hold your life to the very highest standard.

But a true friend holds you to a higher standard. A true friend brings out the best in you.

criticism is part of the price paid for leaping past mediocrity.

But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.

Pitchers don't need to hit well; they need to pitch well. Every step you create needs to do what it does best and nothing more. Focus allows you to pursue excellence, to zero in on the target. You can ruin a great pitcher by trying to make a hitter out of him, and you can ruin a great church…

You may be good. You may even be better than everyone esle. But without a coach you will never be as good as you could be.

Narrow the Focus. By that I mean you shouldn't try to do everything; you should do a few things well.

She says if she surrounded herself with work by mediocre artists all day she'd slit her wrist with frustration. What do you mean? I find it inspiring. When was the last time you saw a Latina artist in a gallery? I never thought about it like that.

Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University's objective of excellence

Let's say I try to ignore the small stuff, like wet towels on the floor, the dishwasher full to the brim and not turned on. You know what men are like, they'll never rise to our standards of excellence. But when they try, that's enough!

Do what you love, and do it well - that's much more meaningful than any metric.