Quotes About Excellence

the best possible way to prepare for tomorrow is to concentrate with all your intelligence, all your enthusiasm, on doing today's work superbly today. That is the only possible way you can prepare for the future.

Sport fosters many things that are good teamwork and leadership.

This is number one, Mr. Namath.

The master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his information and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence at whatever he does, leaving others to decide whether he is working or playing. To him he is always doing both. —James Michener

The fruits of a fulfilling life—happiness, confidence, enthusiasm, purpose, and money—are mainly by-products of doing something we enjoy, with excellence, rather than things we can seek directly.

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination." —Dan Miller

So part of the issue is—do you want to do something great—in any area? If you are content with mediocrity in your life, then you will try to protect yourself from any failure. Just recognize the trade-off.

Discipline is the difference between a good life and a great one.

But there should be no dispute that if American schools don't improve, America will lose its world leadership.

Things which are different in order simply to be different are seldom better, but that which is made to be better is almost always different," said Dieter Rams.[

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom. Atomic Habits

10x quality and transformation is how you race to the top. 2x quantity and competition is how you race to the bottom.

In the book The Dip, Seth Godin explains the importance and benefits of becoming the best in the world at what you do. As Godin explains in The Dip: "The rewards are heavily skewed, so much so that it's typical for #1 to get ten times the benefit of #10, and a hundred times the benefit of #100.

Work hard and cheerfully at whatever you do, as though you were working for the Lord rather than for people.

To get the best out of a man go to what is best in him.

If you were to visit a dozen talent hotbeds tomorrow, you would be struck by how much time the learners spend observing top performers.

One does not become a master coach by accident.

We're prewired to imitate," Anders Ericsson says. "When you put yourself in the same situation as an outstanding person and attack a task that they took on, it has a big effect on your skill.

As Albert Einstein said, "One must develop an instinct for what one can just barely achieve through one's greatest efforts.

Fill the group's windshield with clear, accessible models of excellence. • Provide high-repetition, high-feedback training. • Build vivid, memorable rules of thumb (if X, then Y). • Spotlight and honor the fundamentals of the skill.

Eliminate Bad Apples:

We usually think of passion as an inner quality. But the more I visited hotbeds, the more I saw it as something that came first from the outside world. In the hotbeds the right butterfly wingflap was causing talent hurricanes. "I

High-proficiency environments help a group deliver a well-defined, reliable performance, while high-creativity environments help a group create something new.

La mundanidad de la excelencia. Los logros humanos más deslumbrantes proceden en realidad de la combinación de innumerables elementos individuales que por separado son, en cierto sentido, corrientes.