Quotes About Excellence

I always wanted to do good work and play strong parts.

When you've done good work, you can't come back with something stupid.

I'm ready to do good work in good films.

If you want to be a good writer, be the best writer in the world. That's what I've done.

I felt like I was never going to be a great writer. I felt like I was going to be a good writer at best. I wanted to be great at something.

I never wanted to be a celebrity writer. I wanted to be a good writer. I'm still trying to be a good writer. That's what gets me out of bed in the morning.

allowing only ordinary ability and opportunity, we may explain success mainly by one word and that word is WORK! WORK!! WORK!!! WORK!!!! Not transient and fitful effort, but patient, enduring, honest, unremitting and indefatigable work into which the whole heart is put[...] There is no royal road to perfection.

We are noble, good, beautiful, and happy!

Every kind of contempt for sex, every impurification of it by means of the concept impure, is the crime par excellence against life--is the real sin against the holy spirit of life

Mankind ought constantly to be striving to produce Great Men --this and nothing else is its duty

That which you term moderation, I call mediocrity

Masters of the first rank are recognized by the fact that in matters great and small they know how to find an end perfectly, be it the end of a melody or a thought.

What is Genius?- To aspire to a lofty aim and to will the means to that aim.

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Jealousy is the tribute mediocrity pays to genius.

Don't lose sleep over it, Jed. Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.

Only the mediocre are at their best all the time.

You can never guarantee the wins but you can guarantee that you give it 100%. That way you can always look back and feel comfortable, as a player or a coach.

One major should not get you into the Hall of Fame - maybe one major and 40 wins. I'm not gonna pick a guy with one major and 11 wins.

No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

I've said this: If Jim Leyland had been in my place, he'd have the 2,000 wins and I'd have 1,000. Leyland is the greatest.

The 347 wins is the thing I'm most proud of. Nobody's even close to it.

I've always believed that you put everything into making the best record you can make, regardless of how you release it and regardless of the press and the hype - that the music wins.

If you write a good line, you write a good line, and the best line wins in television. It doesn't matter if you're the guy who gets the coffee or if you're the showrunner - best line wins. That's the beauty of television collaboration.