Quotes About Excellence

Everybody needs a servant, excellent sir, whether they know it or not.

Do you know what it's like to have everyone expect you to be the best at something?

Few things that are made quickly endure.

Está el Pelé hombre y el Pelé jugador. Para jugar como Pelé hay que jugar como Dios.

A great amongst the greats.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Draw, Antonio; draw, Antonio; draw and don't waste time.

Trifles go to make perfection,And perfection is no trifle.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

I work my hardest at everything. That's just achieving, not overachieving.

The Fire-Eaters were a special elite-level team that played after the regular season ended. They had top-notch training and the off-season games added a lot to a player's performance when the regular season rolled around. Problem? You can't join the Fire-Eaters. They have to pick you.

If it works, don't fix it; do more of it.

Tot zijn verbazing schoot Renn een pijl af, en even later plofte een sneeuwhoen op het mos neer. Toraks mond viel open. 'Hoe deed je dat?' Renn bloosde. 'Nou ja, ik oefen veel.' 'Maar... Ik heb nog nooit iemand zo goed zien schieten. Ben je de beste schutter van je stam?' Ze keek niet erg op haar gemak. 'Is er iemand die beter is?' 'Eh, niet echt.

Finally, believers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable and worthy of respect, whatever is right and confirmed by God's word, whatever is pure and wholesome, whatever is lovely and brings peace, whatever is admirable and of good repute; if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think continually on these things [center your mind on them, and implant them in your heart].

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

One cannot lead a life that is truly excellent without feeling that one belongs to something greater and more permanent than oneself.

If everything was determined by the common human condition, by social and cultural categories, and by chance, it would be useless to reflect on ways to make one's life excellent. Fortunately there is enough room for personal initiative and choice to make a real difference. And those who believe this are the ones with the best chance to break free from the grip of fate.

By stretching skills, by reaching toward higher challenges, such a person becomes an increasingly extraordinary individual.

The ballet dancer may fall, break her leg, and never make the perfect turn, and the chess player may be defeated and never become a champion. But at least in principle, in the world of flow perfection is attainable.

he best moments usually occur when a person's body or mind is stretched to its limits in a voluntary effort to accomplish something difficult and worthwhile.

Altius, citius, fortius—is

It is the full involvement of flow, rather than happiness, that makes for excellence in life. When we are in flow, we are not happy, because to experience happiness we must focus on our inner states, and that would take away attention from the task at hand.

of the Zen masters might have been excellent in their own time—and might still be the best, if