Excellence Quotes - Page 14

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

It sure is boring to be around people who are in character all the time. I always find it's closer to mental illness than acting excellence.

Execution Excellence! (Show up on time! Leave last!)

A while back, I came across a line attributed to IBM founder Thomas Watson. If you want to achieve excellence, he said, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.

I use my mind to solve problems and invent things.

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged out of the animal, so out of man the superman emerges.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

We must die to become true human beings.

The difference in being good at some thing and being great at something is usually found in the little things.

Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.

Naturally, grown-up citizens are concerned about the beatniks and delinquents. ... The question is why the grownups do not, more soberly, draw the same conclusions as the youth. Or, since no doubt many people are quite clear about the connection that the structure of society that has becoming increasingly dominant in our country is disastrous to the growth of excellence and manliness, why don't more people speak up and say so?

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

Doing common things uncommonly well.

Great men are but common men more fully developed and ripened.

If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.

A company can seize extra-ordinary opportunities only if it is very good at the ordinary operations.

In today's global economy, however, it is important to raise the bar of excellence even higher. Today's students must be prepared to compete effectively on an international level.

Emphasize the best, and minimize the rest

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

Dostoevsky believed that the gods of rationalism and materialist utilitarianism had joined in conspiracy against all other ethical systems. ... The accumulation of capital, or the acquisition of money, are endeavors par excellence which establish a quantifiable goal: hence they are directly amenable to maximization formulae.

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

Fish is held out to be one of the greatest luxuries of the table and not only necessary, but even indispensable at all dinners where there is any pretence of excellence or fashion.

It is a wretched taste to be gratified with mediocrity when the excellent lies before us.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.