Quotes About Excellence

Every day was a good day at UCLA.

If you aren't really careful, 'The Good Enough' can become the enemy of 'The Best.'

One key to success is demanding more than adequacy, never settling for good enough and always doing a little bit more.

I face every project the same way - do it right and give 110%. 100% isn't good enough.

The best is good enough for me.

I never want to be satisfied. I never want to be like, 'OK, this is good enough.' I always want to get to the next level and help the team improve.

I've always been clever enough to surround myself with the best in whatever field I'm working in... Good people make you look good.

Good students are good at all things.

Exceptional results arrive only when exceptional people put in exceptional effort. It never arises by accident or good fortune.

So don't be average. Don't be good. Don't be great. Be phenomenal. Or be forgotten.

In art, 'good enough' is not good enough.

Don't be sorry. Be good. Be right. Be a hero.

It was never about sort of being famous. I just wanted to be good at what I did.

You know, I'm just 6'9" and 260. And just so happen to be very good at playing the game of basketball.

Good wine, well drunk, can lend majesty to the human spirit.

I always end up working with people that do a really good job, so I'm the only one that I'm worried about disappointing me, not the musicians ever.

It can be said unequivocally that good teaching is far more complex, difficult, and demanding than mediocre research, which may explain why professors try so hard to avoid it.

I felt very honored, and I knew that people would be watching very closely, and I felt it was very, very important that I do a good job.

The way that you become world-class is... by asking good questions.

If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

When we put our best foot forward, the other one had better be good enough to stand on.

Good people equals good management and good management equals good people.

After all, what's good enough for Austen ought to be good enough for anyone.