Quotes About Excellence

When he studied, it was not so much for a promotion as to EXCEL at his job.

Be great, dwell on great thoughts.

If you refuse to accept nothing but the best you will often get it.

To be great at anything that you do, you have to love it! but also give it your all..

Be great, read great books.

I have trained so so hard to be where I am at - I train with Olympic athletes and if I'm struggling to get to the top then there is something wrong.

I learned that it's OK to be stubborn about your craft, and it's OK to demand excellence from the industry.

That's one thing about this business. You'd better give it your best, because you're stuck with that performance on film for the rest of your life.

For Jennie Finch, she's a stud on the field and everyone's going to love her while she's playing, but no one is going to forget her because of the person that she is. That is what she has over almost any other person that's at the top of their sport.

Girls are more academically powerful. They make the grades, they run the student activities, they are the valedictorians.

I was a brilliant student. I always try to be the best.

The message from the Technion when I was a student was: 'You will be so good that when you graduate, everyone will want to hire you.'

I was a good student; I was a good boy. I got A's, and I did all the papers right.

All through the student years, I was at the top of my class although I was two years younger than everybody else.

We owe it to our students to provide the best, high quality public education in Missouri.

I am lucky because I get to work with the smartest, most creative, and most devoted group of students and postdoctoral fellows imaginable.

Imagine filling a college with the first 1,000 students to get perfect SATs. Whatever the racial composition of that class would be, the notion seems absurd because we know that college in America is supposed to be about creating citizens and leaders in a diverse nation.

My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.

My favourite actor is Daniel Day Lewis. He's the finest actor in Hollywood. I've studied his performances.

I studied finance and was a topper.

During this period, with a series of excellent students, we further studied hyperon decays.

I studied with Strasberg, Elia Kazan. They raised the bar. They weren't easy to please, and they made you achieve the best you could do. That's what a teacher does: he infuses you with passion for something.

You may be in a medical or engineering college, but not all will stand first in class. It depends on who studies the most.

I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.