Quotes About Excellence

Things take time my friends - they take a lot of time to create and 'GoT' is the last place you're going to find half baked work so it's all about making sure they fill the frame with as much capacity as possible and making it as real and right as possible. Small price to pay for the amazing quality that comes out of that show.

Our entire film fraternity should be proud of 'Baahubali.' These are the kind of films that are not made very often.

He is the best. Andy Robertson looks like a freak of nature. I watch him play and in every game he gives the same commitment. His consistency levels are extremely high. He is just brilliant.

We put on fights between the best fighters; we don't put on freak shows.

Fred Astaire was special, and such a marvelous human being.

When I drop a freestyle, I'm like, 'This freestyle gotta go hard' or when I do something it's, 'How can we top this?'

I always want to do my very best, and it's frustrating to have something hold me back.

What fuels me? I would like to be the best to ever play the game.

I've always made the choice to do everything to my fullest potential.

If I can't do things to the fullest, I don't want to do it.

It is absolutely key that funding is used to support the best scientists with the best ideas.

Only two classes of books have universal appeal. The very best and the very worst.

Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.

The cheerleaders at Sweet Valley High were the cream of the crop—the prettiest, most sought-after

Anything less than your best dishonors God

un de ces hommes qui atteignent un tel degré d'excellence à vingt et un ans, dans un domaine par ailleurs limité, que tout, après cela, ne peut avoir qu'un goût de défaite.

Be the best. There is no second place.

Caution is the path to mediocrity. Gliding, passionless mediocrity is all that most people think they can achieve.

If you take any activity, any art, any discipline, any skill, take it and push it as far as it will go, push it beyond where it has ever been before, push it to the wildest edge of edges, then you force it into the realm of magic. —T. Robbins

Producing perfection from imperfection is, after all, the highest of art forms.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

If you want to get to the top, there's always the risk that it will isolate you from other people.

I think William Trevor is as good as it gets. Whenever I want a book to do exactly what it says it will, I read him.

Few men try for best ever, and Ted Williams is one of those.