Excellence Quotes - Page 28

This is excellence - the following of anything for its own sake and with its own integrity.

The hallmark of a person who is following the pathway to enlightenment is that they bring excellence into everything, no matter how crappy they feel.

I personally, only work with people in my business who show excellence. I have a business, the business of enlightenment.

If you ever come to one of my seminars, you will notice I have volunteer workers. When I work with individuals like that, I expect a level of excellence displayed. Everything has to be done perfectly.

When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.

You've got to do some work now. Make every effort to supplement your faith with virtue. Virtue is about moral excellence.

A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.

She [Evelina] is not, indeed, like most modern young ladies; to be known in half an hour; her modest worth, and fearful excellence, require both time and encouragement to show themselves.

I just couldn't make the grade as a hack-that, like everything else, requires a certain practiced excellence.

You gotta become. Not do things in excellence. You gotta become excellent.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

People always complain about The Grammys because they're not a pop contest, but they're not supposed to be a pop contest. They're about excellence.

Imitation both unconscious and conscious is par excellence the educational method of the family. It is plain that a considerable part of the adaptation of living beings to their environment, i.e., of beings that are born plastic, is passed on from generation to generation through imitation. Were this not so, much if not all of the road traversed by one generation would have to be travelled by the next generation from the very beginning and without short-cuts. Consequently there would be little chance for the novel adaptation, the propitious individual variation, that constitutes progress.

We want our children to fit in and to stand out. We rarely address the conflict between these goals.

I would suggest that excellence occurs in direct proportion to necessary suffering, but in inverse proportion to unnecessary suffering or toxic stress. Connection is the best antidote to unnecessary suffering.

Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.

The desire of excellence is the necessary attribute of those who excel. We work little for a thing unless we wish for it. But we cannot of ourselves estimate the degree of our success in what we strive for; that task is left to others. With the desire for excellence comes, therefore, the desire for approbation. And this distinguishes intellectual excellence from moral excellence; for the latter has no necessity of human tribunal; it is more inclined to shrink from the public than to invite the public to be its judge.

For there is in mankind an unfortunate propensity to make themselves, their views and their works, the measure of excellence in every thing whatsoever

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

Can you know excellence if you've never seen it? Can you know good if you have seen only bad?

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Pursue excellence; ignore success.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Being an Olympian, I always have this strong belief in excellence.