Quotes About Excellence

My mentality is like a Samurai: They used to every day work on their technique to make themselves almost perfect. Because perfection is impossible, but every day, you get closer to perfection.

As a coach, your high standards of performance, attention to detail and - above all - how hard you work set the stage for how your players perform.

People are not the best because they work hard. They work hard because they are the best.

Every man should be master of anything he does and should do it in a masterly manner, with love, no matter what it is, whether hard physical work, menial or boring work, or inspirational work.

I work very hard at being the best musician I can be because I love it.

You have to set goals that are almost out of reach. If you set a goal that is attainable without much work or thought, you are stuck with something below your true talent and potential.

I try to live my life to the best, but I just always preach that you should just work hard and do your best.

You will be remembered, in the long haul, for the quality of your work, not the quantity of your work. No one evaluates Picasso based on the number of paintings he churned out.

There is no place for little minds in a great work

I think the thing that I've learned is that really great people, they actually want to work on hard problems.

Good NCOs are not just born-they are groomed and grown through a lot of hard work and strong leadership by senior NCOs.

It is only perfection in the foundations that can lead to mastery of the whole...'Talent is Work'

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

Work ethic must exceed the expectation level.

Anybody can say they want to be the greatest ever. I take pride in it. If you're around me long enough and watch me work, that's what I'm striving for. I won't stop until I am.

What is an artist but a workman who is determined that, whatever else happens, his work shall be excellent?

Every job is good if you do your best and work hard. A man who works hard stinks only to the ones that have nothing to do but smell.

The essence of professionalism is the focus upon the work and its demands, while we are doing it, to the exclusion of all else.

I am driven by great work and seeing people do incredible things and having a part in that.

There's one way to do showbiz, if you want to do it perfectly, you have to be disciplined and you have to be ready to work really hard.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

The work of a team should always embrace a great player, but the great player must always work.

Do what you love. When you love your work, you become the best worker in the world.