Quotes About Excellence

If you make every pillow like it's your only pillow, and every customer like it's your only customer, I mean, that's an amazing concept.

Every night that I put my head on the pillow, I go to sleep knowing that I can do more. I'm working toward perfection. I'm trying to be the best ever.

On 'Masters of Sex,' especially in the pilot, everybody was showing up word-perfect, and you're expected to show up word-perfect.

Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an incredible caliber. It's really, really awesome.

Janet Carroll and Robert Pine, Chris Pine's dad, were in my first play, and they were so astonishingly good, I felt it raised my game instantly.

Jane Austen is the pinnacle to which all other authors aspire.

The Grammys are just the pinnacle of music.

Millions around the world see Formula One as the pinnacle of motorsport, and I firmly believe that we should do whatever it takes to keep this accolade. Traction control, automatic gear changes, and launch control isn't my definition of the 'pinnacle of motorsport.'

No question, when you're talking about Grand Slams, they're the pinnacle of the game, and that's what I want to be winning.

This is the pinnacle of the basketball world, you know, in the NBA you're playing against the best guys in the world, and best defensive players in the world, so you have to be able to outthink them and make the right decisions.

Well, having a pint is not going to stop you from winning a gold medal, but for me the question was 'is this going to help me win a gold medal?' if the answer was no, I'd cut it.

If I'm on the pitch, I want to just try to give my best performance every game.

When you have your best stuff, it's a lot easier to pitch.

When I'm on the pitch, I just want to give as good a performance as possible.

I always learnt that to play well, you have to train hard, so every time I go on the training pitch, I try to give my best and to improve.

My job is to go on the pitch and put my best foot forward.

You're used to seeing values listed on waiting-room walls. Communication, integrity, excellence, and respect. Those were actually Enron's values.

We've done both. We can do both. We can raise the quality and still have Walmart prices.

People say to me, 'Well, how do you direct Meryl Streep?' You're not wandering over to Meryl telling her how to act. She's an extraordinary talent and unbelievably hard working; she works harder than anyone I have ever worked with before.

I still wanna rap better than everybody else, and I wanna say important things.

I've always been a good person, but I wanna be, like, the best person.

You always wanna make the best record you ever made, and if I feel like I didn't do that, I wouldn't put it out.

I never wanna settle; I never wanna be complacent - I gotta outwork everybody.

I wanna compete; I wanna be the best at whatever I do.