Quotes About Excellence

The Highest Reward for men and women 's devotion and dedication to excellence is not what one gets from it but what one he or she becomes through it.

Every race and every nation should be judged by the best it has been able to produce, not by the worst.

I have no individual goals. We play for one reason and that's to win the title. Practice is more important than the games, and I will practice when I'm hurt, when 95 percent of the players in this league would sit out. I expect all of you to do the same thing. You will follow my lead." – Michael Jordan

Kazuo Ishiguro, the New Nobel Laureate, Has Supremely Done His Own Kind of Thing

You know, Johnny Depp has always been a massive inspiration for me and he's somebody who has produced an incredible amount of work, and every single piece that he does is amazing.

I knew that were I ever to emerge from my darkness to seek a more excellent way of living...this must be my first step: to choose to forgive. It was a dangerous and desperate step, but how I yearned for the respite it could afford - if indeed there were any respite to be had. p 233

Excellence doesn't mean we have to be 100% better in any one thing: it means we strive to be 1% better in 100 things.

Winners don't do different things, they just do things differently+ Jan Jansen

Today, another Day, and a Opportunity for to be Amazing

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The excellent becomes the permanent.

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

There ought to be so many who are excellent, there are so few.

Nothing worth doing is worth doing in moderation.

I kinda see everyone as competition. I'm a very competitive person. But I think that's good. Competition is great. And as long as it's friendly and not a malicious thing, then I think it's cool.

Dreams can become a reality when we possess a vision that is characterized by the willingness to work hard, a desire for excellence, and a belief in our right and our responsiblity to be equal members of society.

I have been surrounded by some of the smartest, brightest, most caring lawyers, by agents who are willing to risk their lives for others, by support staff that are willing to work as hard as they can.

He is still all potential. The potential to be great, the potential to be mad. He will achieve both magnificently.

What does it mean to be the best? It means you have to be better than the number two guy. But what gratification is there in that? He's a loser—that's why he's number two.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Criticism does not disturb me, for I am my own severest critic. Always in my playing I strive to surpass myself, and it is this constant struggle that makes music fascinating to me.

In your pursuit of excellence, remember that hard work is often the remedy to feeling ordinary, incapable, and discouraged.  

Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

It begins with this idea: Your company is a product. Yes, the things you make are products (or services), but your company is the thing that makes those things. That's why your company should be your best product.