Quotes About Excellence

Competition can never be eliminated from this industry. There is nothing wrong with it. It keeps you on your toes, making you work harder.

What is excellence? It is about going a little beyond what we expect from ourselves. Part of the need for excellence is imposed on us externally by our customers. Our competition keeps us on our toes, especially when it is global in nature.

Healthy competition is very important in any industry. It keeps you on your toes and helps you grow.

I think in any industry, it is competitive. There are a certain number of slots out there and opportunities out there. So you need to make sure that you're always on the top of your toes, trying to get better.

For sure, competition is healthy. It is! It keeps everybody on their toes. It keeps everybody sharp.

There's not anybody physically or even mentally that would even compare with Keith Whitley. He was the most beautiful man I had ever seen in my life, from his toes to the top of his hair.

You cannot compare Pep to any Brazilian coach. If you put all Brazilian coaches together, you would get Pep. One has motivational skills, another is tactically strong. But Pep has it all.

We need quantitative assessments of the success of education. We need certification and qualifications both for teachers and for pupils. It is not a choice between quantity and quality, between access and excellence. Both of these will happen together if people really do believe in the importance of education to change lives.

Smash together the Grammys, Oscars, Emmys, and Tonys, and you get the Green Room at the Kennedy Center Honors.

The only thing Steve Jobs has ever asked me in all the years we've been together and have been partners, the only thing he has ever asked me is: 'Make it great.'

In Tokyo, we have more three-star Michelin restaurants than Paris.

I'm the first to admit that I can't be as good as Tolkien, and a movie can never be as good as Tolkien.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

Tom Ford does everything perfect.

I'm a Tom Brady guy to the fullest. I love the way he manages the game, his mindset. He always works with less. He doesn't always have the best receivers, but he's going to make it work.

After I watched Tom Brady win the Super Bowl, it made me start to think that the only thing that marks greatness is consistency over a long period of time.

I admire Tom Ades: he's a brilliant conductor, and he gets just the right hard, brilliant sound from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra for Russian music.

Obviously Tom Brady is a great quarterback.

Fitzgerald could sense that America was poised on the edge of a vast transformation, and wrote a novel bridging his moment and ours. The Great Gatsby made manifest precisely what Fitzgerald's contemporaries couldn't bear to see, and thus it is not only the Jazz Age novel par excellence, but also the harbinger of its decline and fall.

Most of those who tried to be the best failed. So I tried to be the second-best, and sometimes I succeeded.

be brisk, be splendid, and be public.

Conformity is the inspiration of much second-rate virtue.

Art is about experimenting and ideas, but it is also about excellence and exclusion. In a society where everyone is looking for a little distinction, it's an intoxicating combination.

Although the art world is frequently characterised as a classless scene where artists from lower-msddle-class backgrounds drink champagne with high-priced hedge-fund managers, scholarly curators, fashion designers and other "creatives," you'd be mistaken if you thought the world was egalitarian or democratic. Art is about experimenting with ideas, but it is also about excellence and exclusion. In a society where everyone is looking for a little distinction, it's an intoxicating combination.