Quotes About Excellence

The double hundred Fowler hit in the Madras Test was an absolute beauty.

McDonald's likes to describe professionals that serve them (such as advertising agencies) as having "ketchup in their veins.

Day after day we read about them, each new man more brilliant than the last. They were not just an all-star first team, but an all-star second team as well. There were counts kept on how many Rhodes scholars there were in the Administration, how many books by members of the new Administration (even the Postmaster, J. Edward Day, had written a novel, albeit a bad one).

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

Nothing appalled Deming more than the idea of the interchangeable manager. "What is the motivation and purpose of men like this?" he would say with contempt. "Do they even know what they do anymore? What do they produce?" All they knew about was numbers, not product. All they thought about was maximum profit, not excellence of product.

He was ever conscious of his obligation to play well. Late in his career, when his legs were bothering him and the Yankees had a comfortable lead in a pennant race, a friend of his, columnist Jimmy Cannon, asked him why he played so hard—the games, after all, no longer meant so much. "Because there might be somebody out there who's never seen me play before," he answered.

On writing:] "There's a great quote by Julius Irving that went, 'Being a professional is doing the things you love to do, on the days you don't feel like doing them.'" ( One On 1 , interview with Budd Mishkin; NY1 , March 25, 2007.)

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

To excel in any walk of life, any stage of life, you need to have the two traits of focus and concentration to compliment

The corruption of the best things gives rise to the worst.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

A great inferiority of beauty gives pain to a person conversant in the highest excellence of the kind, and is for that reason pronounced a deformity; as the most finished object with which we are acquainted is naturally supposed to have reached the pinnacle of perfection, and to be entitled to the highest applause.

He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper, but he is more excellent who can suit his temper to his circumstance.

Never settle for the lesser ambition. The job, the title, the conventional loyalties and rewards. Stay focused on the larger ambition, which is making a difference in the world.

Pour le Mérite

The success combination in business is: Do what you do better... and: Do more of what you do...

If we can get this done," Romero said, "this is going to be the fucking coolest game that the planet Earth has ever fucking seen in its entire history!

the exceptional fromagerie Laurent Dubois,

America is a great country—the greatest

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Lord, make my way prosperous not that I achieve high station, but that my life be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

God dwells in the details.

Humility is the ultimate standard of greatness in the Kingdom of God.