Quotes About Excellence

High-Performance Habits" by Brendon Burchard.

If we write at all, why not use our talents to the best advantage?

For the last 20 years of my life, I've had the mantra to do amazing parts with amazing people in amazing projects, so I'm attracted to good story, writing and character and good people. That's what I'm always searching for and I don't think that's ever going to change.

If we're going to stay competitive in a globalised economy, everyone's got to be able to perform at the top of their game.

I was never afraid of failure; for I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

For me, I am the best" Roberto Clemente

Mere adequacy is never adequate.

If you are going to have less things, they have to be great things.

If sales managers hire C-grade players and do everything else perfectly—onboarding, training, developing, and maintaining a great sales process—that team will still have a difficult time becoming the number one sales force. However, if you hire only grade A players and do everything else average, the A players will help you find a way to win.

How did the best get better? It just did. Every single guest raved about the food. Perfectly seasoned, perfectly cooked, the freshest, the creamiest, the most succulent. The best I've ever had. Adrienne noted it, too, at family meal: the Asian shrimp noodles, the Croque monsieurs, the steak sandwiches with creamy horseradish sauce and crispy Vidalia onion rings.

Passion is a choice. You need to choose to be great. It's not a chance, it's a choice.

If you don't manufacture a quality product all you've got at the end is a bunch of expensive mistakes.

Producing a quality product efficiently: that must be the goal. It sure sounds good. "Quality and efficiency." Those are two nice words. Kind of like "Mom and apple pie.

Gladly would I possess the power of selecting my society. From that happy privilege I am debarred. But I seldom make one of a circle in which I do not find some novelty of character, and something either of excellence or absurdity from which I may draw improvement

The chances are that, being a woman, young, And pure, with such a pair of large, calm eyes, You write as well...and ill...upon the whole, As other women. If as well, what then? If even a little better,..still, what then? We want the Best in art now, or no art." (L144-149)

I like interesting people. I'm boring myself, but I'm drawn to greatness.

good, better, best, never let it rest, until your good is better, and your better best.

He knew what it was like to have lost belief in one's own excellence. One could not move through life without a measure of outward assurance any more than one could go about without a suit of clothes, but it needed a lot of practice before one could hold the thing steady outwardly while remaining inwardly aware that there was nothing to be assured about.

the great is seldom a deterrent to the mediocre

Then for some reason I've not done it properly one day, and that's no good at all, because if you're going to do something that's for your own benefit, you've got to do it properly or there's no point.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Instead of raising children who turn out okay despite their childhood, let's raise children who turn out extraordinary because of their childhood.

Anyone could be in the orchestra, or sports team, or arts club at my school. It was precisely the kind of inclusivity that now meets with a sort of scorn and derision as a prizes-for-all culture that generates only mediocrity. There's something so insulting about the idea that including lots of people means mediocrity.

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius.