Quotes About Excellence

A professional writer is an amateur who never gave up.

There is no greater bore than perfection.

Elitism has become a dirty word, and it is a pity. Elitism is reprehensible only when it is snobbish and exclusive. The best sort of elitism tries to expand the élite by encouraging more and more people to join it . . . Science is inherently interesting, and the interest will shine through without the need for soundbites, gimmicks or dumbing down.

Billy Gould has always felt if something was worth doing, it was worth doing badly. Worry about doing it too well, he believed, & you may well be crippled by your ambition

The moral ascendancy of equality has made it difficult to use concepts such as virtue, excellence, beauty and – above all – truth.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything. EUGÈNE DELACROIX

It's a funny thing about life; if you refuse to accept anything but the best, you very often get it. SOMERSET MAUGHAM

You may call it having standards. What you should be calling it is perfectionism.

Great Creator, I will take care of the quantity. You take care of the quality.

Hacer progresos, no llegar a la perfección es lo que deberíamos pedirnos a nosotros mismos.

There is only good vodka and very good vodka—there is no such thing as bad vodka.

Practice your skills; sharpen your tools; do the best job you can.

Gall 3rst had this idea as a young boy when he noticed that those of his classmates who excelled at memorizing school assignments had prominent eyes.

The secret to a good life, he once told me, 'is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.' - We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves

Tajna je dobrog života u tom da pružiš svoju najbolju utakmicu u svem što radiš. Pa ?ak i ako bacaš sme?e, to moraš izvrsno obaviti.

The secret to a good life, he told me once, is to bring your A game to everything you do. Even if all you're doing is taking out the garbage, you do that with excellence.

In this job, you handpick your people. You need the best. You need the most loyal. You need the most ruthless.

He had always told her that winners only competed with themselves.

I'm never content with what I do. I live in a sort of permanent dissatisfaction. I think that's the secret to doing things well.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

Not gods, nor men, nor even booksellers have put up with poets' being second-rate.

Be NOBLE! and the nobleness that liesIn other men, sleeping, but never dead,Will rise in majesty to meet thine own.

Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.

Be more than man, or thou'rt less than an ant.