Excellence Quotes · Page 126

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

— Berenice Abbott

Excellence is THE trend of the '80s. Walk into any shopping mall bookstore, go to the rack where they keep the best-sellers…

— Dave Barry

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

— Mike Schmidt

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

— Francis Turner Palgrave

Intellect needs to be understood not as some kind of claim against the other human excellences for which a fatally high price…

— Richard Hofstadter

Zazen is the ultimate practice. This is indeed the True Self. The Buddhadharma is not to be sought outside of this.

— Dogen

“Art is a journey of excellence not a goal of perfection.”

— Jacqueline Patricks

In order to deal with the chaos that exists in the world today, you need some grounding. That grounding best comes from…

— Michael Ray

The Master acts without doing, and everything gets done.

— Laozi

You have a meeting to make a decision, not to decide on the question.

— Bill Gates

“It's not your perfection that makes you an angel; it's your intention.”

— Alberto Agraso and Mony Dojeiji

A master is a master play of disguise

— Anonymous

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

— Salvador Dali

“If you long for excellence, greatness follows.”

— Alin Sav

You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta…

— Viola Davis

If your business isn't the best quality, it will not succeed.

— Tracy Reese

“Perfection itself is boring; it's only everything leading up to it that's interesting.”

— Jami Attenberg

Life is the greatest art of all, and the master artist is the man who is living the beautiful life.

— John Edgar Park

“Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.”

— Asa Don Brown

We are trying to do our best to bring perfection into whatever we turn our attention to.

— Frederick Lenz

If I cannot overwhelm with my quality, I will overwhelm with my quantity.

— Emile Zola

People of excellence go the extra mile to do what's right.

— Joel Osteen

That we understand something perfectly, that we accomplish something better than anyone else around us, that is what matters.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth…

— Edwin Hubbel Chapin

We love the imperfect shapes in nature and in the works of art, look for an intentional error as a sign of…

— Dejan Stojanovic