Quotes About Excellence

to be well skilled in the mystery of Christian contentment is the duty, glory, and excellence of a Christian.

A Bugatti Veyron is] quite the most stunning piece of automotive engineering ever created....At a stroke then, the Veyron has rendered everything I've ever said about any other car obsolete. It's rewritten the rule book, moved the goalposts and in the process, given Mother Nature a bloody nose.

It's not enough to be the best at what you do; you must be perceived as the only one who does what you do.

Champions distinguish themselves from all others in that they are willing to sacrifice, suffer, and do everything that the nonchampions will not do.

Those interested in excellent, discomfort-inducing horror should read the first four chapters of The Beetle. Those interested in watching potential be wasted should continue beyond that.

Programmers have not been professionals because they haven't really cared about quality.

To never aspire to excellence means to never fully comprehend the amount of work required to achieve it.

Work, mental or manual, is the means whereby attention is compelled, it is the instrument of all knowledge and virtue, the root whence all excellence springs.

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard.

That's the happiest I am, when I'm doing great work.

Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt...It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

To do your own work well, whether it be for life or death.

The people I choose to work with, I work with because I'm already impressed with them.

I don't want to be ordinary. I'm willing to do the work. I'm willing to suffer the indignities of comedy because I want to be great. I don't want to just be good. I want to be great.

John Hurt was incredible to work with.

I think it's important to do great work.

Expensive quality work doesn't cost more - it pays.

Be careful, perfection can make persons and work pass out of sight.

It's always great to work with masters, people who are really, truly good at what they do.

Goodness its the kind of work I come to the Fringe to see

I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.

The best work I can do is to take myself as much as I can out of it and get it as simple as I can.

In fact, all kinds of men, and not merely architects, can recognize a good piece of work.

I work myself into the ground. But I think I'm a nice friend and a good person, and I try to do my work as best I can.