Excellence Quotes - Page 26

Excellence costs a great deal.

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

I detest so much ... those persons, who insist upon telling you everything - who labor every point, as the lawyers say, as if they thought all excellence consisted in length.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than someone who has just read about them.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

Fresh pitsand, however, in spite of all its excellence in concrete structures, is not equally useful in stucco, the richness of which, when the lime and straw are mixed with such sand, will cause it to crack as it dries on account of the great strength of the mixture. But river sand, though useless in "signinum" on account of its thinness, becomes perfectly solid in stucco when thoroughly worked by means of polishing instruments.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

I was obsessed with the Olympics. It's so exciting to see that level of excellence and endurance.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Failure is the price of excellence.

Excellence nourishes the soul.

Beyoncé means so much to me. Throughout my transition, Beyoncé has been there as a style icon, an example of excellence, of beauty, of vulnerability. She's shared so much of herself, and it's inspiring.

Excellence is going the extra mile.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

The educational process should not be one of homogenizing. It should be one of encouraging excellence... when we fail to make financial aid depend upon performance, we eliminate the incentive to excellence.

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

Which are you drinking? The water or the wave?

Physical Fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.