Quotes About Excellence

If you're going to write, don't pretend to write down. It's going to be the best you can do, and it's the fact that it's the best you can do that kills you.

Mark Knopfler has an extraordinary ability to make a Schecter Custom Stratocaster hoot and sing like angels on a Saturday night, exhausted from being good all week and needing a stiff drink.

Total Quality Management

Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.

His resolve is not to seem, but to be, the best.

Rest assured," said Hercule Poirot. "I am the best!

My limbs they are paralysed, my heart, it plays me the tricks, but my brain, Hastings, my brain it functions without impairment of any kind. It is still of the first excellence my brain.

Many other women have kicked higher, balanced longer, or turned faster. These are poor substitutes for passion.

Mediocrity is but a by-product of the dispassionate

IT IS QUITE ENOUGH IF A HUMAN BEING HAS BUT ONE FIELD WHERE HE OR SHE IS STRONG. IF A HUMAN BEING WERE STRONG IN EVERY FIELD, IT WOULDN'T BE NICE FOR OTHER PEOPLE, WOULD IT?

Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theater, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it.

We made ourselves more acceptable to others in a variety of ways. Perhaps you learned that you could win approval by becoming more sensitive than the other boys. Maybe you learned that you could win approval by displaying a creativity that the other boys refused to show, or you learned to win approval by excelling at everything you did.

There...is your spiritual obligation to literature: root out the reductive; seek excellence; pursue the numinous. And, along with a disciplined intellect (for one is of no use without the other) give to children their imaginations, of which they are being robbed with totalitarian intensity by the trash around them.

The James Hills and J.P. Morgans are an affront to a society dedicated to the worship of mediocrity.

Contrast Moses, eved HaShem par excellence, who is described in the Shabbat Amidah prayers as "Moses will be happy with the gift of his portion because a faithful servant You have called him."10 Happy. A servant.

One accusation you can't throw at me is that I've always done my best.

Whether you are an astronomer or a life scientist, geophysicist, or a pilot, you've got to be there because you believe you are good in your field, and you can contribute, not because you are going to get a lot of fame or whatever when you get back.

Mickelson ExxonMobil

Amateurs try to write in one go; professionals draft and draft again.

Start small, do what you do with enthusiasm and do it very well. Stick to that and growth will come.

My personal goals are to fight and beat the best opponent possible.

I gather from motivation around me - from a lot of personalities who have done well in their respective fields.

The necessity to constantly turn in an excellent performance, to be absolutely wedded to this dedication and this ideal means that as a child you're going to pay for it personally.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.