Quotes About Excellence

And there is a time where you can be beyond yourself. You can be better than your technique. You can be better than most of your usual ideas. And this is a whole other category that you can get into.

I went at each race like there was a gold medal at stake. It wasn't like I ran one hard, then slacked off the next. Every time was my best effort. I didn't know how to go at it any other way.

He's one of the best power forwards of all-time. I take my hands off to him.

I want to be the best leadoff hitter of our time.

Downs did not blunt her pursuit of excellence at Moon Valley High. Her intelligence was part of her armor against the world. Her name on the honor roll bolstered her still fragile ego.

I'd thought I knew what beauty was in women; but she'd surpassed all the language I had for it.

my motto, what it's always been. I refuse to be bad at what I do, and that includes being bad. I won't be bad at being bad. I

The world was one thing, but all people are not of it. Some are better than it, apart from it, more splendid, untouchable and pure.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion. —Francis Bacon, Essays, Civil and Moral, "Of Beauty

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

Equipping is more about quality than quantity. It's much better to work with a few who really get it than a bunch who only get it halfway.

Life's too short is repeated often enough to be a cliche, but this time it's true. You don't have enough time to be both unhappy and mediocre. It's not just pointless, it's painful. Instead of wondering when your next vacation is, maybe you ought to set up a life you don't need to escape from.

Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Art is never defect-free. Things that are remarkable never meet spec, because that would make them standardized, not worth talking about.

If you can't be remarkable, perhaps you should consider doing nothing until you can.

You're Astonishing How dare you waste it.

The habit of doing more than is necessary can only be earned through practice.

Life's too short to fight the forces of change. Life's too short to hate what you do all day. Life's way too short to make mediocre stuff.

Mediocre is merely a failed attempt to be really good.

When you hire amazing people and give them freedom, they do amazing stuff. And

The next time you catch yourself being average when you feel like quitting, realize that you have only two good choices: Quit or be exceptional. Average is for losers.

Don't be different just to be different. Be different to be better.

Great work is not created for everyone. If it were, it would be average work.

You and your organization have the power to change everything. To create remarkable products and services. To over deliver. To be the best in the world. How dare you squander that resource by spreading it too thin. How dare you settle for mediocre just because you're busy coping with too many things on your agenda, racing against the clock to get it all done.