Excellence Quote by Gene Kim Download Open image ““habits are what enable mastery.”” — Gene Kim ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Habits
“Habits are tools. They can either propel you toward success or drag you down.” — Silvica Rosca Copy Share Image
“In order to gain mastery over whatever you have been called to do, you must look for ways of improving how you do them.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“There’s no class offered in school called Habit Mastery. There should be. Such a course would probably be more important to your success and… — Hal Elrod Copy Share Image
“Mastery requires both the possession of ready knowledge and the conceptual understanding of how to use it.” — Peter C. Brown Copy Share Image
“Habits are the tools by which we build self-disciplined lives.” — Katherine L. Leigh Copy Share Image
“I would more appropriately define mastery as the technical ability possible within the constraints of your particular existence.” — Chris Matakas Copy Share Image
“Striving to gain mastery is like making a valiant attempt to live on the streets.” — Anyaele Sam Chiyson Copy Share Image
“Choose your habits well. Habit is probably the most powerful tool in your brain’s toolbox.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“for those organizations that provided a stock ticker symbol, we found that high performers had 50% higher market capitalization growth over three years. They… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“A critical part of the Second Way is making wait times visible, so you know when your work spends days sitting in someone’s queue—or… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“when something does go wrong, we conduct blameless post-mortems, not to punish anyone, but to better understand what caused the accident and how to… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Bill Baker, a distinguished engineer at Microsoft, quipped that we used to treat servers like pets: “You name them and when they get sick,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“To even get feedback from our integration process would require twenty-four to thirty-six hours.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“work can bounce between teams endlessly due to incomplete information, or work can be passed onto downstream work centers with problems that remain completely… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“practicing five minutes daily is better than practicing once a week for three hours. And if you want to create a genuine culture of… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“20% on detailed planning (Their poor throughput and high lead times were misattributed to faulty estimation, and so, hoping to get a better answer,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“Features are always a gamble. If you’re lucky, ten percent will get the desired benefits.” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“I listen to Wes and Patty brainstorm ideas to reduce yet another dependency on Brent when something starts to bother me. Erik called WIP,… — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
The status quo (of development) pre-ordains failure from the very beginning. — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
“high performers were twice as likely to exceed profitability, market share, and productivity goals. And,” — Gene Kim Copy Share Image
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
