Quotes About Excellence

We aspire to be a top performer in every area of our business, and that includes leading in the communities where our employees and their families live and work.

Naturally you want to be the best mom you can, but then also you want to be the best performer you can.

Blake Griffin has shown he can be an All-NBA performer.

Honestly, I just love great performers and people who love what they do.

Great performers - in sports, the arts, business, or whatever field - have undertaken massive amounts of training. And when that training is complete... they train some more, and harder than they expect to perform. Why? Training builds confidence and ensures peak performance.

Kurt Angle is an Olympic gold medalist, one of the greatest in-ring performers of all-time.

We are not only one of the largest investment firms but also one of the best performing.

If you feel too comfortable while you're performing, you're probably not doing it right.

My job is to make sure we keep performing.

For example, I wouldn't hesitate to sit somebody down if he wasn't performing, even if he was the No. 1 player in the world. I've been sat down before.

Dancers, like all performing artists, like nothing better than to be challenged.

I think the main thing you measure your success by is what you do in comparison to your opposition. If you're in an industry where you're the leader, then you're performing very well.

I'm inspired to work with good actors, period. I want to work with the best anytime because I think they'll make me better.

If you can't do it and do it well, you can't do it, period.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

New York, for decades, offered a perpetual series of 'golden ages' to artists. You constantly had to measure yourself against the best, and you had to watch them, which meant that your imagination and also your sense of what the market could stand got very, very sharp.

Being one of the few African American women to make it to this level in a classical ballet company, the level of American Ballet Theatre, takes a lot of perseverance.

One who is persistent will excel.

A person always doing his or her best becomes a natural leader, just by example.

Only a mediocre person is always at his best.

I'm a big Leonardo DiCaprio fan. And if I could have a career like his... he's amazing. And not only his career, his public persona and how he carries himself.

ABREAST He who aims to keep abreast is for ever second best.

The height of perfection is mediocrity.

Excellent things are rare.