Quotes About Excellence

To pursue bright spots is to ask the question "What's working, and how can we do more of it?" Sounds simple, doesn't it? Yet, in the real world, this obvious question is almost never asked. Instead, the question we ask is more problem focused: "What's broken, and how do we fix it?

It's as though the leaders aspire to create a complaint-free service rather than an extraordinary one.

Marcus Buckingham, who says that

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

Surround yourself with talent and be merciless.

many of the top masters in their fields long ago had to learn to stop listening to themselves and instead begin talking to themselves.

Citius, Altius, Fortius

You should have to be a lot more than decent to be a kid's hero.

WELCOME TO THE BOARD GAME HALL OF FAME

And you can take that to the hoop!" said Michael Jordan as a basketball net appeared on the keystone of the arch leading into the rotunda. Jordan took two giant strides as an arena full of cheering fans and a play-by-play announcer's excited voice roared out of the ceiling speakers.

Qui Servum Magnum - He Who Serves Greatest.

Sí, tenemos que tomar decisiones difíciles, hacer las cosas bien y adaptarnos a un mundo siempre cambiante, como lo hacen las mejores compañías; pero también tenemos que encontrar paz y satisfacción al darnos cuenta de la grandeza a la cual somos llamados como seres humanos.

se mantenían convencidos de que el rendimiento de la más alta calidad se obtenía cuando los individuos y los equipos apuntaban más alto.

Excellence means that you're prospering spiritually, mentally, physically and in every area of life. What does it mean to prosper? It means to do well, to have over and above, to walk in a high level with God. It means to be in a high class with God, where you can think like God and live like Him.

This signifies that the presence of God is so smeared or rubbed on you like oil, that His presence is left on you, causing divine excellence and power.

He the best

The masters, the ones who succeed tremendously and set the standard for others, are those who master the details.

The better performing of your business units are likely to be those operating the furthest below their full potential.

Beauty can afford to laugh at distinctions: it is itself the greatest distinction.

Latria (adoration) is the worship and homage that is rightly given only to God. Dulia (veneration, devotion), by contrast, is the recognition and honor rightly evoked by excellence observed in created persons.

Moreover, in order to show forth her wisdom and the excellence of her mind to the centuries to come, she [Nicostrata/Carmentis] worked and studied so hard that she invented her own letters, which were completely different from those of other nations, that is, she established the Latin alphabet and syntax, spelling, the difference between the vowels and consonants, as well as a complete introduction to the science of grammar.

A new breed of ministers is rising up who will not wear out for the gospel. They are so caught up in passion, unity, and fullness that they run out and say, "World, here I come!" If they go into places where they get shot at, they are thrilled. If they do not get shot at, they are thrilled. If the place they go is filthy, they are thrilled. If it is clean, they are thrilled. Jesus is the joy set before them. He is their exceedingly great reward.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

He liked I expect the idea of effortless excellence, and being unable to combine the two has settled for the one he could be sure of...