Quotes About Excellence

It is always something special to be a standout. But I never really look at that stuff. I just go out and try to handle my business.

I love talking to interesting people - people like O.J. Simpson, Andretti... I love champions. A champion has something special about him.

I think there's something special about getting a moment perfect or near perfect. In a film, you can do that.

You put two fiery all-stars on the same team, something special has to happen.

I think England's always good at making something special.

I would like to have an assortment of words, but what can I say about Leo? He is breaking all the records, and those he will still beat. He makes the public always expect something special from him, and he delivers it.

It is always something special to play Roger.

Playing at the highest level really is something special for me.

When you're in the Ring of Honor locker room, you feel like something special is happening every night.

When it comes to the green and gold, the passion starts pouring out from me to be able to create something special in that basketball space for our country. I'm absolutely dialled in when it comes to that.

To be a part of something special and compete for a championship is something that's not capable on every team.

We put a great deal of effort into Requiem,' and it really felt like we were making something special.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist.

There may be a better one somewhere, but I haven't caught her at it.

I think that every song has to be like it could be the biggest hit of my album.

I want to say at once that I frankly believe that Irving Berlin is the greatest songwriter that has ever lived.... His songs are exquisite cameos of perfection, and each one of them is as beautiful as its neighbor. Irving Berlin remains, I think, America's Schubert.

We pride ourselves on being great songwriters.

Choose your companions from the best; Who draws a bucket with the rest soon topples down the hill.

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

Few men can be said to have inimitable excellencies: let us watch them in their progress from infancy to manhood, and we shall soon be convinced that what they attained was the necessary consequence of the line they pursued, and the means they used.

Giving everything for your passion and aims every day is enough. Quality and durability always shine through sooner or later.

When I saw Beyonce, she did a two-hour show singing and dancing - it was like my mouth just wouldn't close. I was like, 'OK, I'm drooling,' like, it's so good. Oh my God. No one's better. I'm sorry.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.