Excellence Quotes - Page 29

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

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

How sad that we often diminish our best gifts by struggling valiantly to develop in someone else's area of ability. It is better to focus on your uniqueness and do that with excellence than to end up with mediocrity in several areas.

It seems that more people today have a greater desire to live long than they do to live well.

As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial.

In the land where excellence is commended, not envied, where weakness is aided, not mocked, there is no question as to how its inhabitants are all superhuman.

The quality of racing continues to excel with starters increasing to 1496,.

The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.

I want my name to be a brand in comedy. I hope my name stands for comedic excellence.

I think there's inherently an issue that models will literally never be able to handle, which is that when somebody comes along with a new way of doing something that's really excellent, the models will not recognize it. They only know how to recognize excellence when they can measure it somehow.

The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

To interest is the first duty of art; no other excellences will ever begin to compensate for failure in this.

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

I want to explore and do things with excellence. I want to write songs that resonate with me and will resonate with a live audience. I'm exploring fresh sounds.

A good taste in art feels the presence or the absence of merit; a just taste discriminates the degree--the poco piu and the poco meno. A good taste rejects faults; a just taste selects excellences. A good taste is often unconscious; a just taste is always conscious. A good taste may be lowered or spoilt; a just taste can only go on refining more and more.

Nike has always been a business about excellence and achievement.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.