Excellence Quotes · Page 81

What is creative is the seeking of perfection - and not attaining it.

— Semir Zeki

“Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. It’s persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence”

— Jon Acuff

“always remember that it is progress, not perfection, you should be looking for.”

— Arbinger Institute

“Mastery doesn't come from an infographic. What you know doesn't mean shit. What do yo do consistently?”

— Timothy Ferriss

“No one is perfect; that’s all the reason to work towards perfection.”

— Vinita Kinra

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence.

— James Bryant Conant

Quality is made in the board room. A worker can deliver lower quality, but she cannot deliver quality better than the system…

— W. Edwards Deming

The keys to attain personal excellence are determination, desire to succeed, positive attitude and the urge to reach on top.

— Anurag Prakash Ray

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable…

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Through change and challenge, if our personal foundations are built with quality virtues of character and integrity, we are more resilient, healthy,…

— Susan C. Young

“If you are not EXCITED enough at your present life its mean your future is not EXITING. Excitement will give you ENTHUSIASM…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is…

— Jerry Brown

Sun and moon and day and night and man and beast each with a splendor which man in all his vileness cannot…

— Marianne Moore

“Be an imperfectionist. Perfectionists spend too much time on little differences at the margins at the expense of the important things.”

— Ray Dalio

“Loving is like any other art-craft where the masters have carefully practiced and where the novices have languished in their carelessness.”

— Bryant McGill

First quality: you are capable of great things, but you must never forget that there is a hand guiding your steps. We…

— Paulo Coelho

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never…

— Samuel Johnson

I've inherited the quality of understanding good music from my father.

— Bhushan Kumar

My quality is to defend. Of course, I will give my best for the team. If the gaffer or the team needs…

— Davinson Sanchez

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

— Dhirubhai Ambani

“How you think and create your inner world that you gonna become in your outer world. Your inner believe manifest you in…

— Rashedur Ryan Rahman

... every entity loses perfection as long as it is not fulfilling its purpose.

— Moshe Chaim Luzzatto

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

— Tom Peters

If we do not know who the customer is, we do not know what quality is.

— Eric Ries

I hope you will simply do what you can do in the best way you know. If you do so, you will…

— Gordon B. Hinckley

“To gain mastery you must unite the qualities of spirit, strength, technique and the ability to take the initiative. (Page 31).”

— Sadami Yamada

Perfectionism is a perpetual flight into an illusory future that cannot be attained.

— Gary Zukav

In front of excellence, the immortal gods have put sweat, and long and steep is the way to it.

— Hesiod

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

— Roger Ebert

Mastery experiences are those achievements where you know that it was your hard work and effort that brought about success.

— Senora Roy

“We must have the courage to be imperfect while striving for perfection.”

— Patricia T. Holland

“Excellence is built in the unnoticed, uncelebrated corners of your life.”

— Jason Curry

Look at any inspired painting. It's like a gong sounding; it puts you in a state of reverberation.

— Philip Guston

To Define A Perfection Is Like Trying To Figure Out The Taste Of Water...

— Pacifiersucker

People of quality know everything without ever having learned anything.

— Moliere

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness

— Anonymous

Productivity is never an accident. It's always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused on effort.

— Paul J. Meyer

We live in a world where mediocrity is the norm. Strive for excellence, and you will stand out.

— Anonymous

You have achieved excellence as a leader when people will follow you anywhere if only out of curiosity.

— Colin Powell

At the heart of it, mastery is practice. Mastery is staying on the path.

— George Leonard