Excellence Quotes - Page 22

You're only as good as your last story.

To be faithful to your instincts and the impulses that carry you in the direction of the excellence you most desire and value ... surely that is to lead the noble life.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

Don't be prideful with any excellence that is not your own

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

The habit of excellence can become enjoyably addictive.

No publisher in America improved a paper so quickly on so grand a scale, took a paper that was marginal in qualities and brought it to excellence as Otis Chandler did.

Hunger for excellence. Continuously seek inspiration to make your work better.

The five excellences include: calligraphy, painting, poetry, medicine, and t'ai chi chuan.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

Hey, size works against excellence.

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

Reading is the occupation of the insomniac par excellence.

I think everyone is their harshest critic, but I strive for excellence as much as I can because I think it shows.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

The superior excellence imputed to the book, which imitates the products of antique and obsolete processes, is conceived to be chiefly a superior utility in the aesthetic respect; but it is not unusual to find a well-bred book-lover insisting that the clumsier product is also more serviceable as a vehicle of printed speech.

But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.

Men of perverse opinion do not know the excellence of what is in their hands, till someone dash it from them.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Excellence isn't as much about being the best as it is about being the best you can be, and being better than you were before.

A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Individual efforts can bring excellence but only collective efforts can deliver effectively.