Quotes About Mastery

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.

There is no excellence uncoupled with difficulties.

Once you understand what excellence is all about... you see how that excellence manifests itself in any discipline.

All excellence is equally difficult.

There is always a best way of doing everything.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

I can do small things in a great way.

A refined ability to learn from failure and to grow through losses is necessary to achieve excellence in any human endeavor.

Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

When workmen strive to do better than well, they do confound their skill in covetousness.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

True perfection is unattainable, but if you chase perfection you will catch excellence!

We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. Aristotle How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence.

It is said that it takes 10,000 hours to develop mastery and excellence. How many hours have you clocked today on your passion?

Trying to compromise EXCELLENCE, is like trying to let a little bit of air out of a balloon with a hat pin.

Excellence is greater than an achievement; excellence is standard in all my designs

Ancient masters of excellence had a subtle essence, and a depth too profound to comprehend.

Excellence is never an accident.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.