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Quotes About Excellence

Set the goal and work all days for it, until you achieve, I want to be a champion, the best!
~ Kevin Durant
I always believed, right from the beginning, if you're going to do something, do it the best. If you're going to work, you want to enjoy it-make a product that you really enjoy selling or owning.
~ Laurence Graff
Ultimately, if you are doing great work, the money will come.
~ Lee Clow
A lot of hard work has to go into your career, and preparation, and being your best at all times.
~ Leven Rambin
I often ask students: 'Is this what you would show Tom Ford?' and they say: 'No, we'd have done more work' or 'We'd have dressed better.' So I say: 'Why don't you do that here?'
~ Louise Wilson
If a job's worth doing, it's worth doing twice.
~ Margaret Mahy
On what high-performing companies should be striving to create: A great place for great people to do great work.
~ Unknown
Take your heart to work and ask the most and best of everybody.
~ Meryl Streep
If you don't back it up with performance and hard work, talking doesn't mean a thing.
~ Michael Jordan
Good work is the only thing that would make me feel jealous or envious.
~ Philip Seymour Hoffman
The forehead of every work must shine from afar.
~ Pindar
Now nothing can be more important than that the work of a soldier should be well done.
~ Plato
The good work proceeds with tenacity, intention, without interruption, with an equal measure of passion and reason and it must surpass that goal the artist has set for himself.
~ Odilon Redon
Excellence in any department can be attained only by the labor of a lifetime; it is not to be purchased at a lesser price.
~ Samuel Johnson
Learn from the greats, and expose yourself to better work.
~ Sara Genn
Always keep your best work.
~ Sergei Bongart
It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks about what's "too much" what's "enough" or if you're telling the "right" stories, just do good work.
~ Soledad O'Brien
Don't worry about the chatter, do a good job, produce great work and do reporting that you're proud of.
~ Soledad O'Brien
If you're a perfectionist and you know you're about to do something at which you cannot be perfect, then that is daunting because you know what your heart is like and the way you approach your work.
~ Stephen Colbert
Effective people do two things: they strive to do excellent work, and they prioritize.
~ Stephen Covey
Life is too short to do mediocre work and it is definitely too short to build shitty things.
~ Stewart Butterfield
Do good work. Don't worry about expressing yourself. Figure out what you do well and make it better.
~ Thomas S. Buechner
A soup like this is not the work of one man. It is the result of a constantly refined tradition. There are nearly a thousand years of history in this soup.
~ Willa Cather
I want to work with people who are good at what they do, and people who are passionate.
~ Willem Dafoe