Quotes About Excellence

Whatever your discipline, become a student of excellence in all things. Take every opportunity to observe people who manifest the qualities of mastery. These models of excellence will inspire you and guide you toward the fulfillment of your highest potential.

It was always my goal to 'up the ante' on good design and rye devoted much of my career to this.

Remember, no one cares what you want. Focus on delivering more than is expected every time and relieve yourself of the notion that anyone cares about your hopes and dreams. Find a pain point and solve it. It's that simple.

Life is too short to half-ass it. Full-ass it!

When you totally commit yourself to a project and do your work quietly and well, unknown friends will find you and angels will surround you.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for perfection is God's business.

Those who are greatest in civic excellence—not the wealthiest, or the most numerous, or the most handsome—are the ones who merit the greatest share of political recognition and influence.

The most obvious reason for giving the best flutes to the best flute players is that doing so will produce the best music, making us listeners better off. But this is not Aristotle's reason. He thinks the best flutes should go to the best flute players because that's what flutes are for—to be played well.

Moral excellence does not consist in aggregating pleasures and pains but in aligning them, so that we delight in noble things and take pain in base ones. Happiness is not a state of mind but a way of being, "an activity of the soul in accordance with virtue.

I've always believed that if you put in the work, the results will come. I don't do things half-heartedly. Because I know if I do, then I can expect half-hearted results.

I want to be perceived as a guy who played his best in all facets, not just scoring. A guy who loved challenges.

The biggest fool in the world is he who merely does his work supremely well, without attending to appearance.

Dobias taught his players the line famously attributed to legendary Green Bay Packers head coach Vince Lombardi: "I taught them that winning wasn't everything, it was the only thing," Dobias said. "Donald picked right up on this. He would tell his teammates, 'We're out here for a purpose. To win.' He always had to be number one, in everything. He was a conniver even then. A real pain in the ass. He would do anything to win

So proud to be joining the best team in the world.

I want to test my maximum and see how much I can do. And I want to change the world of swimming.

If you want to be the best, you have to do things that other people aren't willing to do.

If I didn't swim my best, I'd think about it at school, at dinner, with my friends. It would drive me crazy.

Being No. 1. It's talked about all of the time in hip-hop. 'I'm still No. 1! I'm the best! I'm the greatest of all time!' It's the same mentality in sports.

Because of my father, we are that Shining City on a Hill.

If you can't make it good, make it big.

Just being a mediocre driver has never been my ambition. That's not my style

You have become so good that every mistake you make has a spotlight on it.

The rest of us do "high school theater." Lou does "theater.

Just do your job, keep learning every day, perform at your peak and to the outside edge of your limits, never complain, and always be first to support your teammates.