Excellence Quotes - Page 7

Form, which should be the clean - cut expression of mechanical excellence has become sensuous and organic.

A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol. So, a movie like 'The Artist' that costs $14 million, has to go out and compete with movies that cost $140 million. How does David deal with Goliath?

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

The perfect is the enemy of the good.

I've always had that obsessive will to win and a commitment to excellence.

Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.

If America wants to make "made in America" a symbol of excellence and worth. They have to make everything of high quality, otherwise the best.

Make it a life-rule to give your best to whatever passes through your hands. Stamp it with your manhood. Let superiority be your trademark.

If politics is like show business, then the idea is not to pursue excellence, clarity or honesty but to appear as if you are, which is another matter altogether.

Excellence means when a man or woman asks of himself more than others do.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization in education is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

How seek the way which leadeth to our wishes? By renouncing our wishes. The crown of excellence is renunciation.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

Aspire greatly; anything less than a commitment to excellence becomes an acceptance of mediocrity.

Excellence comes from human beings doing things of value that customers find memorable.

Life's like a play; it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

It's not what the vision is, it's what the vision does.

Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning and enrichment, emotion and cognition.

Deliver more than you are getting paid to do. The victory of success will be half won when you learn the secret of putting out more than is expected in all that you do. Make yourself so valuable in your work that eventually you will become indispensable. Exercise your privilege to go the extra mile, and enjoy all the rewards you receive.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Education to perfect gentlemanship, to human excellence, liberal education consists in reminding oneself of human excellence, of human greatness.