Quotes About Excellence

Never show unfinished work.

Do excellent work for Christ. So that's my heart. It's always been. And I want to be the best I can be. I want to make a difference in my generation.

Hard work opens doors and shows the world that you are serious about being one of those rare - and special - human beings that uses the fullness of their talents for the highest and the very best.

The goal isn't to do work and hand it in just before it's due. The goal is to do the work as beautifully as you can, faster than anyone else, so you can do more work.

A first-rate laboratory is one in which mediocre scientists can produce outstanding work.

You can go out and try to do the best work that you can do within the context of what that is, but it's really gotta be about the work and what you're focusing on.

I work hard. I like to practice. I like to win. I want to be the best.

Working on The West Wing was similar in many ways to my experience on M*A*S*H, because you had people willing to work late at night to get it just right.

Work without joy is drudgery. Drudgery does not produce champions, nor does it produce great organizations.

I think you're only as good as the work that you do.

People of higher talent work, even if they seem to do nothing

It grieves us to produce work that is not perfect.

No matter how humble your work may seem, do it in the spirit of an artist, of a master. In this way you lift it out of commonness and rob it of what would otherwise be drudgery.

The crew, the actors and the writers all work the same way. We always want to do the best job.

To watch a master work at anything is a privilege.

Art is what we're doing when we do our best work.

How are you going to do great things if you are not committed to your work.

[A writer] should try not to be too far, personally, below the level of his work.

Good work is not done by 'humble' men

It's simply not enough to just show up and do your work. Superior performance is not, never has been, nor will it ever be, the by-product of ordinary efforts.

There is no room in the world, as you say, for second rate work.

I'm expecting a lot from myself, I have set the bar high and I want to do really well for my teammates. I love working out and preparing so I have spent a lot of time doing that.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

I had to work harder. I couldn't do the social thing, and play the game the others were playing. I had to work that much harder and handle the 'evils' by doing good work.