Excellence Quotes · Page 61

“Cluelessness is not an attractive quality in a man.”

— Michael Ian Black

“Jesus was ... He is ... and will always be ... my Master,”

— Toni Sorenson

Chess will always be the master of us all.

— Alexander Alekhine

Merely to have survived is not an index of excellence.

— Anthony Hecht

Courage is not the absence of fear, but the mastery of it.

— Anonymous

Patience is also a form of action.

— Auguste Rodin

Anarchy, the absence of a master, of a sovereign.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

Men, in general, are but great children.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

The only way to obtain perfection in any field is constant learning and practice.

— Anonymous

You can’t be content with mastery; you have to push yourself to become a student again.

— Austin Kleon

Clarity breeds mastery. And the goals you set drive the actions you'll take.

— Robin Sharma

If there is a single quality that is shared by all great men, it is vanity.

— Yousuf Karsh

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

— Saint Augustine

Quality and longevity are the primary criteria, along with repairability and ease of production.

— Patricia Piccinini

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

— Baltasar Gracian

The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power.

— Samuel Johnson

Evolution is not finished; reason is not the last word nor the reasoning animal the supreme figure of Nature. As man emerged…

— Sri Aurobindo

“Sociologist Dan Chambliss published a study titled The Mundanity of Excellence in which he argued that an extraordinary performance is a convergence…

— FastReads

There is no doubt but men of genius and leisure may carry our method to greater perfection, but, having had long experience,…

— Francis Bacon

I think committing to excellence in life affects every area of life, not just your family relationships but work, career, the whole…

— Jonathan Roumie

“To the absolutist in every craftsman, each imperfection is a failure; to the practitioner, obsession with perfection seems a perception for failure.”

— Richard Sennett

“Perfectionism is a shield that we carry with a thought process that says this, 'If I look perfect, live perfect, work perfect,…

— Brené Brown

“From your silken hair to your delicate feet you are perfection to me. Pleasure hides love from us, but pain reveals it…

— Oscar Wilde

Indeed, while so much in education reform can divide activists into warring camps, expanding learning time unites reformers around a shared vision…

— Chris Gabrieli

When one is serving his master, he should exert himself.

— Takeda Nobushige

Everyone knows my quality... and the way I play.

— Oscar

And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.

— Jane Austen

Healing is awakening to the perfection that already is ours.

— Baird T. Spalding

Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong.

— Lauren Oliver

“The world is perfect, with all its imperfections.”

— Sahara Sanders

Doing common things uncommonly well.

— Orison Swett Marden

The art of a master is the art of craft

— Anonymous

The Masters is going to be an awesome challenge.

— Nigel Mansell

“If mind is your master, there is no possibility of peace.”

— Aditya Ajmera

I'm not a master of films, I'm rather a slave.

— Ang Lee

“She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.”

— Robert Coover

I will hold myself to a standard of GRACE, not perfection.

— Anonymous

“leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.”

— Sheryl Sandberg

What is perfection, anyway? It's the death of creativity.

— Diane Keaton

I'd say that what we hear is the quality of our listening.

— Robert Fripp