Quotes About Excellence

THINK LIKE A HERO (who can I help today?), WORK LIKE AN ARTIST (what else can we try?), REFUSE TO BE ORDINARY (pursue excellence, then kill it.), and CELEBRATE (but take no credit.).

Be undeniably good.

Be so good they can't ignore you

Be so good they can't ignore you.

The gap between the best software engineering practice and the average practice is very wide—perhaps wider than in any other engineering discipline. A tool that disseminates good practice would be important. — Fred Brooks

Design is sloppy because a good solution is often only subtly different from a poor one.

Brilliance is encouraged but optional. Competence, however, is mandatory.

I don't expect perfection, I expect excellence." I expect 100 percent effort in all you do.

Ain't no man can avoid being born average, but there ain't no man got to be common. —Satchel Paige

If you're interested in being your best, your inner monologue needs to support the best you want to be. In fact, when it comes to sustained performance, because doubt and disappointment are constant companions, controlling your thoughts is often the ball game.

Temple University sports psychologist Michael Sachs, who made an extensive study of these states, summed this up nicely: "Every gold medal or world championship that's ever been won, most likely, we now know, there's a flow state behind the victory.

Flow tends to be the psychic signature of world-class performance and paradigm-shifting breakthroughs

It's not how good you are; it's how good you want to be.

Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of good.

A design can excel at one challenge only by compromising at others.

Given the costs of information, the perfect can be the enemy of the good.

I find ambition really attractive too - if someone's good at something they love doing. I want someone who is driven.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

He hasn't shown me anything but how he carries himself as a professional man, husband, father and athlete. Tom Brady is a pro's pro. I love the man and everything he's accomplished.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

Focus on something that stirs your soul, it's hard to excel at anything that you don't love.

The object of love is the best and most beautiful. Try to live up to it.

It comes down to finding something you love to do and then just trying to be great at it

Ferraris are art, but they love being driven.