Excellence Quotes · Page 97

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us that life…

— Anne Lamott

“No real excellence, personal or social, artistic, philosophical, scientific, or moral, can arise without solitude.”

— William Deresiewicz

No one has mastery, Before he is at the end, Of his art and his life.

— Michelangelo

To be my own master, such a thing would be greater than all the magic and all the treasures in the world.

— Aladdin

It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying…

— Frank Ocean

No good work whatever can be perfect, and the demand for perfection is always a sign of a misunderstanding of the ends…

— John Ruskin

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can…

— Kay Kay Menon

It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

— Matthew Kelly

You know, I think it's so ironic that we're calling hard work, striving for excellence, don't blame others, you know, don't give…

— Amy Chua

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted. Only artistic excellence is incorruptible. Pleasure cannot…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not…

— Kent Conrad

This quality, I mean Geoffrey was with me, was very easy doing - he loved me very much, I loved him very…

— Victoria de los Angeles

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that…

— Edsger Dijkstra

I think the foremost quality - there's no success without it - is really loving what you do. If you love it,…

— Malcolm Forbes

One of the most essential things you need to do for yourself is to choose a goal that is important to you.…

— Les Brown

“Quality is a cycle of repeatedly meeting customer expectation until the customer begins to expect more, and then meeting those expectations.”

— Chris J. Kortright

Men are the best cooks. Because with two eggs, one sausage & a little bit of milk, he can fill a girl's…

— Don Kel

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

— Edith Schaeffer

The work must be its own reward. I got that early on. And I'm blessed by meeting my own standards of excellence.

— Al Jarreau

I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.

— Oprah Winfrey

Being able to overcome obstacles and to demand the most out of yourself is a quality that everyone needs to be successful.

— Davante Adams

I believe one of the most important priorities is to do whatever we do as well as we can.

— Victor Kiam

“There is a level of fulfilment that comes with serving God with sheer excellence, even when facing the mountains of this world.”

— Gift Gugu Mona

“To love another human in all of her splendor and imperfect perfection , it is a magnificent task...tremendous and foolish and human.”

— Louise Erdrich

“I have one mind for the master to see. I have another mind for what I know is me.”

— Sue Monk Kidd

Tenacious practice, practice, practice is crucial for excellence; rote repetition is underrated in America.

— Amy Chua

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

— Frank Rizzo

“If you are capable, but not available, nature will raise a person with lesser ability to replace you soon.”

— Israelmore Ayivor

“When you demand perfection within yourself, you become more fallible.”

— Bryant McGill

All is measured by that relative term, quality. It is in this search for quality that the artist is, of necessity, the…

— Rex Brandt

“Autumn is a momentum of the natures golden beauty…, so the same it’s time to find your momentum of life”

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

“before perfection (assuming perfection is even possible), you must first have process.”

— Jeffrey A. Barnes

Excellence is not a singular act, but a habit. You are what you repeatedly do.

— Anonymous

Expecting perfection from ourselves or others is not what holiness is about.

— Kevin DeYoung

One thing I've learned: My intentions are clear in terms of quality.

— Elizabeth Berkley

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

— Edith Hamilton

“When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.”

— George Washington Carver

Democracy is a constant tension between truth and half-truth and, in the arsenal of truth, there is no greater weapon than fact.

— Lyndon B. Johnson

“And there we were, in the background of it all, holding on to one another. The Perfectionist, the Sweetheart, the Diva .…

— Kiera Cass

Achieve some perfection [excellence] yourself, so that you may not fall into sorrow by seeing the perfection in others.

— Rumi