Quotes About Excellence

Be the Mick Jagger of the mailroom, the Warren Buffet of bookkeeping and the Bono of stapler selling.

Geniuses understand that it's smarter to create one masterwork than one thousand ordinary pieces.

Practice daily, because the quality of your practice determines the Caliber of your performance.

The hours that ordinary people waste, extraordinary people leverage.

Simplify your life. Strip away all that is unimportant – then focus, focus, focus. You'll be surprised how good you will then get at being great.

You'll get to the end of your life anyway-- why not reach that place as an extraordinary human being?

Consiste en resistir a la tiranía de lo ordinario, en impedir que la negatividad se apropie de vuestra capacidad de asombro y en evitar que cualquier forma de esclavitud de la mediocridad infeste vuestras vidas.

The best you can do is all you can do.

Develop the patience to stick with your dedication to absolute world-class output, even if over a lifetime you only generate a single masterpiece. To achieve this feat alone will have made your life's journey a worthy trek

When mediocrity is common, create masterwork.

Find your series of practices, perform them with consistency. And then go out into this beautiful world of ours and shine.

If you're going to do something, I believe, you should do it well. You should sweat over it and make sure it's strong and accurate and beautiful and you should be proud of it

Motivation is in fact the most important result of student-engaged assessment—unless students find reason and inspiration to care about learning and have hope that they can improve, excellence and high achievement will remain the domain of a select group.

No detail of design escaped John and Abby's exacting attention.

John, I might have known it. You do things better and more easily than anyone else.

I think of the limitations that specialness requires: doing a series of very unspecial things, very well, over and over (...) (P223)

Do it once and do it right and do it quickly

We can't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.

primus inter pares

made it a perfect

You were trained to play a game, and you're not even good enough to do that. I was trained to kill people, and I was the best at it.

Details make perfection, and perfection is not a detail.

So vile a thing is a lie that even if it spoke fairly of God it would take away somewhat from His divinity; and so excellent a thing is truth that if it praises the humblest things they are exalted.

No one rises to low expectations