Quotes About Excellence

I'm beginning to see that just knowing the piece is not enough. Having a clear technique is not enough. Having a broad repertory is not enough. I want desperately to get past all those things.

Apple makes computers and they have to be great at providing the product they promised every individual who wants to purchase from them. This is where they should spend the bulk of their energy.

Once you start thinking more about where you want to be than about making the best product, you're screwed.

I'm in the kitchen five days a week, no matter what, and one or two of those days I'm on the line. Not because I have to be, but because I want to be.

The fact remains that we have an obligation to discover what we really, really, really want to do (which is probably what we do best) and then do it even better... much better.

Everyone knows Jordan as a winner, and that's what I want to be known as at the end of my playing career. Someone who's won multiple NBA Championships and has made a difference in the NBA.

I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I want to try it again and again, and a lot of times my fellow musicians have to hold me back and say, "Nah, I think we got it."

I get angry if I do things wrong, but that's what keeps me going. I want to do my best.

I am afraid to piss in the morning 'cause I don't want to waste any of my excellence

I absolutely love what I do, and I want to dance for as long as I can and feel good about what I am putting out there on the stage.

I'm obsessive about my job and I want it to be as great as it can possibly be, especially right now in these early parts of my career.

I'm so beyond genre, drama, comedies, I just want to do really good, interesting projects.

I saw that Meryl Streep said, I just want to do my job well. And really, that's all I'm ever trying to do.

Being a first-rounder is a dream. You want to be mentioned as a first-rounder, the best of the best.

Anyone in any walk of life who is content with mediocrity is untrue to himself and to American tradition.

I would sooner fail than not be among the greatest.

The most expensive thing in the world is a second-best military establishment, good but not good enough to win.

Genius unexerted is no more genius than a bushel of acorns is a forest of oaks.

Rewards for good service should not be deferred a single day.

To see victory only when it is within the ken of the common herd is not the acme of excellence.

Be of good courage, my son, and remember that the best men always make themselves.

Be the best at what you're good at

God made you the way he did for a reason. Go, be awesome.

Golden ages have no shade of grey.