Quotes About Excellence

Don't let doing enough be good enough.

Aim to be the best in the world at whatever you do professionally. Even if you miss, you'll probably end up in a pretty good place.

I learn through listening and watching other performers that are very good, like Denise Chávez, Dorothy Allison.

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

You don't have to settle for the status quo, for being good enough, for getting by, for working all night.

If you don't like your definition of 'good enough', then feel free to change that, but the goal before shipping is merely that. Not perfect.

My goal was not to be famous or rich but to be good at what I did. And that required going to New York and studying and working in the theater.

When literature becomes deliberately indifferent to the opposition of good and evil it betrays its function and forfeits all claim to excellence.

I think that is the difference between the very good and the best.

Scores only matter if they're very good, no one pays much attention to the bad or mediocre ones.

It's easy to fall into the trap of just cranking out things that are good enough to sell.

No, I have to really focus, especially when I'm writing because I wanna be good at it

Very good. It was perfect.

I was a great student. I was good at everything.

There is no greatness apart from self control. Development that does not include self government will only guarantee our mediocrity.

The excellence of every government is its adaptation to the state of those to be governed by it.

Herein indeed consists the excellence of the English government, that all parts of it form a mutual check upon each other.

Be aware that even before you have reached your ultimate professional destination, if you always strive for excellence, you can and should have a substantial impact on the world in which you live.

Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.

Every successive generation becomes a living memorial of our public schools, and a living example of their excellence.

The difference between something good and something great is attention to detail.

Good players create opportunities. The great players and the great people seize them

With the absence of pressure, it's hard to do great things.

Great vision without great people is irrelevant.