Quotes About Excellence

There is no shortcut to awesome. Zoe Winters

Steve Jobs taught me that little details separate the mediocre from the excellent.

La gente confía en ti cuando estás informado, eres competente, piensas en grande y creas situaciones de valor seguro. En resumidas cuentas, cuando haces cosas buenas y las haces bien.

In the Macintosh Division, you had to prove yourself every day, or Jobs got rid of you. He demanded excellence and kept you at the top of your game. It wasn't easy to work for him; it was sometimes unpleasant and always scary, but it drove many of us to do the finest work of our careers. I wouldn't trade working for him for any job I've ever had—and I don't know anyone in the Macintosh Division who would.

If the average man is made in God's image, then such a man as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God....

But getting the mind right when things are not going ideally is the key to athletic excellence. Good perspective in the face of adversity qualifies as "mental toughness" — the coin of the realm for elite athletes.

the customary academic suspicion of anything that is not guaranteed to be mediocre need have been involved.

When I was about 9 years old, man, I realized that the real thing was not only to do what you were doing totally great, but to look totally great while you were doing it.

A strategy is something like, an innovative new product; globalization, taking your products around the world; be the low-cost producer. A strategy is something you can touch; you can motivate people with; be number one and number two in every business. You can energize people around the message.

I have a goal to be the best player every time I touch that floor. Just be the best me.

These things bring you to reality as to how fragile you are; at the same moment you are doing something that nobody else is able to do. The same moment that you are seen as the best, the fastest and somebody that cannot be touched, you are enormously fragile.

Jorgensen is tough, but Lin Dan is right up there. He is the best and biggest rival. I really want to catch all his records, but if I want to achieve that, then the most important thing for me is to stay healthy.

As a leader, I am tough on myself and I raise the standard for everybody; however, I am very caring because I want people to excel at what they are doing so that they can aspire to be me in the future.

I'm aware if I'm playing at my best I'm tough to beat. And I enjoy that.

LeBron is one of the greats. He's going to hit tough shots. You have to be able to live with them and limit everyone else around him.

The fight game has changed to where it's no longer the toughest is fighting the toughest to be the best on the planet.

Gamers are some of the toughest people to please. They have extreme requirements. They want everything.

And that's what I want to do, fight the best guys, the toughest guys to prove I am the best.

World Championships is the toughest competition in the world.

You can't get a good crew and a good sound system, and a good light system if you do a small tour. If you want the best, those guys want a commitment of about 4 to 6 months. And I'd want the best people and the best stuff.

I've always said it: I don't want to be the only Columbian playing on the PGA Tour, so, guys, just play some good golf and come join me here.

If it wasn't good, I wouldn't be going back out on tour.

Generally my day-to-day is pretty much the same. Just busy and working and on tour. And trying to put on the best show possible every night.

On the PGA Tour, guys finish in the top 10, make a ton of money and think they're great players. In my era, you had to win. We didn't settle for anything else.