Quotes About Excellence

Computing machines perhaps can do the work of a dozen ordinary men, but there is no machine that can do the work of one extraordinary man.

A successful artist of any kind has to work so hard that she is justified in refusing to lay down her sceptre until she is placed on the bier.

If our web be framed with rotten handles, when our loom is well nigh done, our work is new to begin. God send the weaver true prentices again, and let them be denizens.

Well, I'd love to work with Kate Winslet - she's amazing.

Of all the excellent copyedits I've received over the years, Marie-Lynn Hammond's was by far the best. Her work on Half Blood Blues was incredibly sensitive and astute.

You have the quality of your work and the integrity with which you do it.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

I just want to do good work. That's all I want to do. I don't have big aspirations like being the President of the United States, I just want to do good work. That's all.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

I only work with professionals. I don't mean at seminars, but in my business.

People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.

It doesn't matter what your work really is. It is exciting to do well at something. It empowers you.

Amateurs hope. Professional work.

I'm a designer, I love it, and I haven't worked this hard to do bad work.

American business can out-think, out-work, out-perform any nation in the world. But we can't beat the competition if we don't get in the ball game.

My gift, if I have one, is choosing terrific talent and providing the atmosphere for them to do their best work.

It feels amazing to work with writers that write really well.

My idea of the real aristocrat is the master workman, no matter what his line of work may be.

Being able to work with Ridley Scott on this film is like being able to play on the Olympic team for actors.

As a director/writer/producer, all you ever want is to work with actors who make you look better, who make the work you do seem as good as it can be and even better than it is.

If you love something - and there are things that I love - you do want more and more and more of it, but that's not the way to produce good work.

Mort Meskin was a consummate professional, dedicated to his work. A great talent.

Nick O'Leary loves to compete. His work ethic is fantastic, and that's what I like about him. He works, and works, and works; and if he has to get better, he gets better.

I'm very ambitious, musically - I want to create great things, not mediocre work.