Quotes About Excellence

Hold out for the best there is, Kiernan. You should have it. Make sure that there's fire. Maybe there'll be ice, too, but hold out for the extremes, for the best, the brightest. Don't accept anything lukewarm. Because you're fire and ice, and you're the brightest and the best, Kiernan.

Sometimes when you are good at hard work, you give yourself too much of it. And with too much hard work in front of you, you might not also have the time and space to be truly brilliant.

If we did all the things we are capable of, we would literally astound ourselves. —Thomas Edison

Live up to your potential, not down to others expectations.

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The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better.

Steve kept impressing on us that the design was integral to what would make us great,' said Schiller.

The thing is, it's very easy to be different, but very difficult to be better. – JONY IVE

Concentre-se naquilo em que você é bom; delegue todo o resto. Jobs não dirige filmes de animação nem namora Wall Street. Ele se concentra naquilo em que é bom.

When most students might build half a dozen models, Jony had built a hundred

our goal is not just to make money but to make great products.. make only first-class products with high margins so that Apple could continue to develop even better first-class products

An instructor should exemplify the things he seeks to teach. It will be of great advantage if you yourself can do all you ask of your students and more.

Professional accountability is a good thing. Without it, excellence is merely a pipe dream and even average performance isn't a realistic expectation.

The beauty of this country and what people participate in is the competitive nature that we allow to exist and the fact is that we are better because we have great competitors.

Not how much, but how well, is our motto.

Quality is not an act, it is a habit. —Aristotle

We must follow the rule: Better fewer, but better. We must follow the rule: Better get good human material in two or even three years than work in haste without hope of getting any at all.

You are the only you ... You are the best you. You will always be the second best anyone else.

First-rate people hire first-rate people; second-rate people hire third-rate people.

But to be the best, to reach the pinnacle, requires self-denial, sacrifice, discipline, humility, and preparation. You have to hurt yourself, scold yourself, analyze yourself, recognize your weaknesses at the same time you try to eliminate them.

You're not very good at this, are you?' 'At what I do, I'm the best. This isn't what I do.

Art, in a sense, is life brought to a standstill, rescued from time. The secret of making it is simple: discard everything that is good enough.

Si un libro es bueno, el escritor también ha de serlo.

The great dividend is not necessarily outscoring an opponent. The guaranteed dividend is the complete peace of mind gained in knowing you did everything within your power, physically, mentally, and emotionally, to bring forth your full potential. – John Wooden, legendary UCLA basketball coach