Quotes About Excellence

We never thought that there would be another Sachin Tendulkar. But Virat Kohli has changed this mindset. I think Virat can surpass Tendulkar's records.

Honestly achieved results surpass all others.

It's such a pleasant surprise when you come on set and you find someone in charge like Ken Branagh or James Ivory. You know that you're going to do a day's work and at the end of it, it's going to be good.

It's hard to go from good to great. You go from one to seven by eliminating stupid things. Let's not have 12 penalties in a game. And you surprise some people. When you're a seven-win team, everyone sees you coming.

This is a coup for commissioner Bud Selig. I'm surprised it's as good as it is.

Messi no longer surprises me.

Here is the surprising truth: It's often easier to make something 10 times better than it is to make it 10 percent better.

I just feel like bands always need to work harder than the hardest working band. You need to constantly be one-upping yourself and surprising yourself at how hard that you'll work and devote yourself to your craft.

Serena's arguably the best athlete of all time, so getting to know her was surreal.

One thing I've done is surround myself with people who are as good as me or better.

When a woman is a really good driver she is just about perfect.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.

Pug nodded. 'What do you fear the most?' Nicholas thought a long moment. 'Of not being as good as I should be.' Pug said, 'Then you stand a chance, Nicholas.

Participation in the collective life of the polis both restrains the extraordinary individual and enlarges the ordinary individual, allowing him to participate in the extraordinary. An individual can achieve participatory excellence via the accomplishments of the polis and need not always be caught up in the agnostic struggle to outdo his peers.

Genius in a person was like weed that takes over the entire garden, that won't allow anything else to grow. (p. 251)

But we knew that when one goes into a shop and buys a cake one gets nothing but a cake, which may be very good, but is only a cake; whereas if one goes into the kitchen and makes a cake because some people one respects and probably likes are coming to eat at one's table, one is striking a low note on a scale that is struck higher up by Beethoven and Mozart.

We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill.

nobody means to get carried away in mediocrity, but it happens, it happens unless you think about everything you do, unless you make every choice the best one you know how to make.

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's reason to live! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can learn to be free! we can learn to fly!

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do...

For each of them, the most important thing in living was to reach out and touch perfection in that which they most loved to do, and that was to fly.

His vows of a moment before were forgotten, swept away in that great swift wind. Yet he felt guiltless, breaking the promises he had made himself. Such promises are only for the gulls that accept the ordinary. One who has touched excellence in his learning has no need of that kind of promise.

Cuanto más nos iluminamos, menos se puede esperar que nadie, en ninguna parte, viva a nuestra altura

Instead of our drab slogging forth and back to the fishing boats, there's a reason to life! We can lift ourselves out of ignorance, we can find ourselves as creatures of excellence and intelligence and skill. We can be free! We can learn to fly!