Quotes About Excellence

The standard to compare your software to is what it could be, not what your current competitors happen to have.

You need to be technically and tactically proficient with all your weapon systems and set the standard for the newbie on the team. They should aspire to be like you one day. If you live the example, you set the stage for success. You also take away all the excuses, should anyone want to fall back on one.

Keep your life as simple and efficient as possible. How? Learn with each stumble or failure. Failure is only an opportunity to excel. The perception in which your mind chooses to visualize your challenges in life will enable your successes or enhance your failures.

We have become a society that strives for the minimum standard, and this is how we live our lives. Failure to put in the desired time and effort will reward you with only middle-of-the-road performance.

Whether we are orderlies or orchestra conductors, either we befriend our work-- seeing in it the opportunity for moral excellence and a continual outpouring of heavenly grace-- or we become its victim.

Talent is a universal gift, but it takes a lot of courage to use it. Don't be afraid to be the best.

But if we are talking in terms of making progress in life, we must understand that good enough is very different from best.

What is a master? I would say that he is not someone who teaches something, but someone who inspires the student to do his best to discover a knowledge he already has in his soul.

weak? You must learn to take from a person that which is his best and ignore all else.

This imperial woman, so diverse and rich in her genius, might have chosen her own greatness had she been able to single one gift above another, but she could not make her own choice of what she loved best to do, and so she did something of each and in all she excelled. As for those affairs of state which had absorbed her until

the secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. to know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

The way I look at it, impatience may be the enemy of perfection, but the perfect is the enemy of the good.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

Art is an absolute mistress; she will not be coquetted with or slighted; she requires the most entire self-devotion, and she repays with grand triumphs.

Two is not a winner, and three nobody remembers. What does it take to be number one?

1-2 out of every 100 students reach Black Belt and of those only 1 out of every 1,000 achieves his 2nd Dan

Art means something very rare, an extraordinary achievement.

In France, cooking is a serious art form and a national sport.

They say that a lion puts his all, even into catching a rabbit. You should make it a habit of putting your all into every little thing you do.

If you can take something to levels that very few other people can reach, then what you're doing becomes art.

Mastery is the art of setting your foot on the path.

Cricket is battle and service and sport and art.

Whoever you are, if you know what you're doing, you don't want other people to overtake the merit of your art.

Art is not special sauce applied to ordinary cooking; it is the cooking itself if it is good.