Excellence Quotations | Page 5

Sometimes even excellent Homer nods.

For excellence, the presence of others is always required.

Mathematics, the non-empirical science par excellence . . . the science of sciences, delivering the key to those laws of nature and the universe which are concealed by appearances.

Every activity performed in public can attain an excellence never matched in privacy; for excellence, by definition, the presence of others is always required.

You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out.

Everybody keeps calling for Excellence excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.

We should allow others' excellences, to preserve a modest opinion of our own.

Biography, especially of the great and good, who have risen by their own exertions to eminence and usefulness, is an inspiring and ennobling study. Its direct tendency is to reproduce the excellence it records.

God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.

It seems then that it is not the excellence of any two things (or more) in themselves, but those two things as viewed by the light of each other, that makes beauty.

As we all learned from the sorry experience of state-sanctioned bureaucracies in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union, decentralization [in education] is crucial to both freedom and excellence.

Personal excellence can be achieved by a visionary goal, through planning, dedicated execution, and total follow-through.

He who excels in his art so as to carry it to the utmost height of perfection of which it is capable may be said in some measure to go beyond it: his transcendent productions admit of no appellations.

Some dishes are of such indisputable excellence that their appearance alone is capable of arousing a level-headed man's degustatory powers. All those who, when presented with such a dish, show neither the rush of desire, nor the radiance of ecstasy, may justly be deemed unworthy of the honors of the sitting, and its related delights.

I believe excellence is being able to perform at a high level over and over.

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

We all love to see excellence as a fan, and I am a fan now watching excellence in the Rangers net.

Doing work points the way to new and better work to be done.

Good maxims are the germs of all excellence.

Mediocrity is excellence in the eyes of the mediocre.

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, Word, and Warner Bros., and with their proven record of excellence, we're looking ahead to an even brighter future for Curb.

Success is about having. Excellence is about Being!

Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.

Meditation was invented as a way for the soul to venture inward, there ultimately to find supreme identity with Godhead. Whatever else it does, and it does many beneficial things, meditation is first and foremost a search for the God within.

If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

The combination of creative energies and the need to perform at the highest level to keep up with peers leads to an otherwise unattainable commitment to excellence.

Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.

To hate excellence is to hate the gods.

What keeps the democracy alive at all but the hatred of excellence; the desire of the base to see no head higher than their own?

Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.

Excellence is not an act, but a habit.

Excellence is not an act but a habit. The things you do the most are the things you will do best.

I hope to be remembered as an author who defined and exemplified excellence in crafting the modern love story.

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

The unwillingness of most leaders to set standards, to administer feedback when standards are not met, to praise clearly when standards are met, stands in the way of the development of excellence. The leader who makes no demands of his disciples cannot really lead them at all. The sense of new excitement and new challenge generated by the gospel will be blunted by leaders who shield followers from the full demands of fellowship.

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education...

We cannot continue to have an excellence gap with the rest of the world and intend to remain the [economic superpower] and [military superpower] of the planet. That's just not going to happen. We're in a position where unless we take action, we'll end up being the [France] of the 21st century: a lot of talk, but not a lot of strength behind it in terms of economic capability.

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. / No one knows what he can do till he tries.

Competition breeds excellence, including in the GOP race.

Unaffected modesty is the sweetest charm of female excellence, the richest gem in the diadem of her honor.

They were real golfers, for real golf is a thing of the spirit, not of mere mechanical excellence of stroke.

... we never do any thing well, unless we love it for its own sake.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

Ive zeroed in on what you would call action and excellence... Everybody who does anything to try to succeed has to give the best of themselves, and art has made me pull the best out of myself.

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

If you want to sustain excellence over a long time, you'd better come up with a system that works well. Anyone can sprint for a little while, but you can't sprint for forty years.

I have become convinced that the most overlooked tool in our medical arsenal is harnessing the body's own ability to heal through nutritional excellence.

We are more afraid of excellence than of failure.

There should be an expanded role in this society for every human being. I see an expanded role for the human spirit, for excellence, for virtue, and for creativity - within women, and within everyone.

Film is the manipulative medium par excellence. When you think back on the history of film and the 20th century, you see the propaganda that's been made. So there are moral demands on the director to treat the spectators as seriously as he or she takes himself and not to see them merely as victims that can be manipulated to whatever ends they have.

We don't have to do it any better than we can - ever. Do our best for the moment, then let it go. If we have to redo it, we can do our best in another moment, later.

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

The mediocre always feel as if they're fighting for their lives when confronted by the excellent.

There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

You should aspire to a level of personal excellence - to be the best you can be. You should aspire to have the richest life you can get in terms of fulfillment, happiness and peace.

A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.

Excellence isn't about meeting the spec, it's about setting the spec.

Excellence isn’t about working extra hard to do what you’re told. It’s about taking the initiative to do work you decide is worth doing.

Excellence isn’t about meeting the spec, it’s about setting the spec. It defines what the consumer sees as quality right this minute, and tomorrow, if you’re good, you’ll reset that expectation again

Tis a meaner part of sense to find a fault than taste an excellence.

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

We cannot have islands of excellence in a sea of slovenly indifference to standards.

All excellence involves discipline and tenacity of purpose.

Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do...Try to be better than yourself.

Does Christ get a good reputation because of the way we live? Is the excellence of Christ displayed in our lives? That should matter to us, not whether we ourselves are praised.

All the different ways God has chosen to display his glory in creation and redemption seem to reach their culmination in the praises of his redeemed people. God governs the world with glory precisely that he might be admired, marvelled at, exalted and praised. The climax of his happiness is the delight he takes in the echoes of his excellence in the praises of the saints.

Only a few people have the background of Nick Saviano to take a player to the next level of excellence

Often extraordinary excellence, not being rightly conceived, does rather offend than please.

It is not the most brilliant that excel in film, but the most patient!

Elvis Presley had nothing to do with excellence, just myth.

There is a canyon of difference between doing your best to glorify God and doing whatever it takes to glorify yourself. The quest for excellence is a mark of maturity. The quest for power is childish.

Excellence costs a great deal.

I don't think about being male or female, I just behave naturally. I think in terms of excellence in science, not gender.

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Tall peaks are not always better than long plateaus as true greatness must include protracted excellence.

Children display a universal love of mathematics, which is par excellence the science of precision, order, and intelligence.

Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

Without doubt I praise the wild excellence...

It's for management to enthuse & motivate employees towards excellence in service; the profit incentive doesn't last

In any democracy, there is always a tug-of-war between policies to achieve equality and policies to promote excellence. I am certain that Canada can achieve both equality and excellence.

There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.

We measure the excellency of other men by some excellency we conceive to be in ourselves.

Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many things which perhaps are of no importance, that it cannot but see something feeble in a civilization which smiles as it refuses to make the battlefield the test of excellence.

Our goal, simply stated, is to be the best.

The envy of excellence leads to perdition; the love of it leads to the light.

Excellence isn't achieved without inspiration and perspiration. You've got to have both.

As its best, SF is the medium in which our miserable certainty that tomorrow will be different from today in ways we cant predict, can be transmuted to a sense of excitement and anticipation, occasionally evolving into awe. Poised between intransigent scepticism and uncritical credulity, it is par excellence the literature of the open mind.

Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.

The UNC Law School has a long tradition of a commitment to both academic excellence and public service, which I find very appealing. Although I'm very happy teaching at William & Mary, I'm also pleased to be a candidate in the UNC search.

These girls know how devoted I am to them and that I will with my dying breath do whatever it takes for them to be successful on and off the court. They see how committed to excellence I am and how hard I work. I love my girls and I love my team.

The readiness to praise others indicates a desire for excellence and perhaps an ability to realize it.

We clamor for equality chiefly in matters in which we ourselves cannot hope to obtain excellence.

I was brought up, and my sister too, with two people who were always saying, "What you do is really nowhere near as important as the things that are going on in the world, and if your work needs to reflect that, or you want it to, then you need to strive for a certain type of excellence."

There is one act par excellence which profanes money by going directly against the law of money, an act for which money is not made. That act is giving.

The price of excellence is labor, and time that of immortality.