Excellence Quotes · Page 80

All great masters, in their work, seek that profound void within color and outside time.

— Orhan Pamuk

Perfection is one thing and enjoyment another; these two having different ends, engage men differently.

— Swami Vivekananda

Process improvement programs are like teaching people how to fish. Strategy maps and scorecards teach people where to fish.

— Robert S. Kaplan

Once you decide that mediocrity is unthinkable, your only choices are excellence and quitting.

— Nick Murray

Every job is a self portrait of a person who does it. Autograph your work with excellence.

— Anonymous

Good is the enemy of great!! Strive for excellence! You will stand head and shoulders above your other peers!

— Anonymous

“When you come up a bit short on excellence, you still win. When you strive for perfect, you’re just never quite good…

— Dawn Gluskin

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

— Robert S. Kaplan

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities…

— James Daly

Megyn Kelly is one of those rare women who seamlessly combines professional excellence and family. She doesn't need a catch phrase to…

— Judy Sheindlin

The main quality I have is my mentality because I never gave up - I never, ever give up. I have been…

— Abdoulaye Doucoure

If it were not somewhat fanciful to suppose that every human excellence is presented, as it were, in one kind of being,…

— Wilhelm von Humboldt

“True perfection consists in the love of God and of our neighbor, and the more perfect is our observance of these two…

— Padma Aon Prakasha

When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They…

— David McCullough

“Perfection is an everlasting goal to pursue. It reminds us that we are mortal beings capable of making mistakes. When we correct…

— Ellen J. Barrier

“true perfection consists in the love of God and our neighbor, and the better we keep both these commandments, the more perfect…

— Teresa of Avila

Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.

— Tom Peters

I'm sorry for my imperfections but theres a reason behind everything

— Anonymous

There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.

— Oliver Goldsmith

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

— Jennifer Lopez

It's extremely difficult to come across quality material. It's a competitive world.

— Romany Malco

“Get up and get on the bed in the Master. I’m going to fuck the hell out of you.”

— Alessandra Torre

To strive for perfection is to kill love because perfection does not recognize humanity.

— Marion Woodman

“The point of imperfection which we occupy -- is it on the way up or down?”

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

— Anonymous

Excellence of mind itself, rightly conceived, is expertise in beauty; creativity is wise love.

— Robert Grudin

If you focus on success, you’ll have stress. But if you pursue excellence, success will be guaranteed.

— Deepak Chopra

One mustn't mistake bling for excellence, just as one mustn't mistake quiet for mediocre.

— Kevin McCloud

Greatness is a quality of character and is not the result of circumstances.

— Dean Acheson

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

— Vince Lombardi

The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of…

— Thomas Aquinas

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

“You cannot score a goal when you are sitting on the bench. To do so, you have to dress up and enter…

— Israelmore Ayivor

“Winners go beyond the bare minimum. Just “getting done” doesn’t cut it. Shoot for excellence in everything that you do.”

— Bohdi Sanders

The master accomplishes more and more by doing less and less until finally he accomplishes everything by doing nothing.

— Laozi

Personal perception of perfection is like that. You see what you want to see. After awhile you just see what you need…

— Matthew Good

“A skillful instrumentalist has his story to tell of his ordeal in rehearsals”

— Sunday Adelaja

“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.” Will Durant”

— Nicola Cantan

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

— Rajneesh

“Seeking excellence means choosing to forge your own sword to cut through the limitations of your life...”

— James A. Murphy