Quotes About Excellence

You need to have good people: honourable, capable, committed in politics, standing in public office. It's not a guarantee, but it's the ideal we have to aim for.

From a development standpoint, at Blizzard Entertainment one of our values of course is commitment to quality.

I know that every good and excellent thing in the world stands moment by moment on the razor-edge of danger and must be fought for.

Quality for me is key, and this stands true in every facet of my business from real estate, hotels, and fashion.

I'm a big fan of Daniel Day-Lewis. He's a marvelous actor. He stands alone, I think.

Of all the awards given to NFL athletes, the Walter Payton Man of the Year is the one that stands out above the rest to me because of what it represents.

I look out there, and I see that Floyd Mayweather stands head and shoulders above everyone else. He's another fighter I would like to base myself on because he's got incredible fast hands and feet. He's flashy but, man, is he good.

Everything that UCLA stands for, it's top of the food chain. So you either look at those things as burdens or you look at them as blessings. From day one, I've told my staff we're going to look at it as a blessing and do everything we can to build champions.

Only one champion stands at the end of the year, so just making the playoffs isn't enough.

In the end, only a good actor stands out; if I am not a good actor, I won't stand out.

Your name never stands for anything, only performances do.

My best bet is to make the most awesome-sounding music that I can possibly make and pour everything that I have into that and hope and pray that it stands on its own.

The man who has done less than his best has done nothing.

It is virtue that gives glory; that will endenizen a man everywhere.

Obsession is an attractive thing. People who are really, really interested and good at one thing and smart are attractive, if they're men.

No man ever reached to excellence in any one art or profession without having passed through the slow and painful process of study and preparation.

Mediocrity is not allowed to poets, either by the gods or men.

A man can be an artist... in anything, food, whatever. It depends on how good he is at it. Creasey's art is death. He's about to paint his masterpiece.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

A beautiful god is the most noble product of Man.

From the beginning of the Radiation Laboratory, I have had the rare good fortune of being in the center of a group of men of high ability, enthusiastic and completely devoted to scientific pursuits.

Nothing more excellent or valuable than wine was every granted by the gods to man.

Men, God is not opposed to greatness. God is opposed to pride. Big difference. Unfortunately, it is a difference not widely understood or embraced.

I still look to music to heal and bind; I still think the musician can be a trusted object offering his fellow-man solace but also a reminder of human excellence.