Famous Quotes & Sayings

Michael Wright

We have always strived for excellence with our products, so it's satisfying to be involved with an organization that rewards excellence in its industry.

Juergen Schrempp

We have what we need. The name of the game now is operational excellence. The group is structured as it will be in the long term.

Barbara Williams

We are really proud to be part of this fabulous industry and to be part of the celebration which showcases excellence in the industry.

Charles de Gaulle

There can be no other criterion, no other standard than gold. Yes, gold which never changes, which can be shaped into ingots, bars, coins, which has no nationality and which is eternally and universally accepted as the unalterable fiduciary value par excellence.

Bill Rodgers

Personally, I always felt times aren't so excellent as are performances.

Bill Johnson

Perfectionism is the counterfeit of excellence. Excellence is Kingdom, while perfectionism is religion. What ever you do, do it with all you might, and as unto the Lord. That is excellence.

Audre Lorde

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

Deepak Chopra

I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Baltasar Gracian

There is none who cannot teach somebody something, and there is none so excellent but he is excelled.

Cesare Lombroso

The appearance of a single great genius is more than equivalent to the birth of a hundred mediocrities

Eddie McGuire

The culture has got to be only the best for Collingwood. I reckon Collingwood accepts defeat far too easily and accepts mediocrity far too easily,

Benedict Cumberbatch

There's so much in the 21st century that is stymied by bureaucracy and mediocrity and committee.

Anton Chekhov

There is nothing more vapid than a philistine petty bourgeois existence with its farthings, victuals, vacuous conversations, and useless conventional virtue.

Baltasar Gracian

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

John Suckling

A quiet mediocrity is still to be preferred before a troubled superfluity.

Luc de Clapiers

It is a great sign of mediocrity to praise always moderately.

Ayn Rand

in architecture, mediocrity is more glaringly obvious than in other lines - because there's a huge, physical object such as a building to demonstrate it.

Blaise Pascal

Mediocrity makes the most of its native possessions.

Edwin Land

Our society is changing so rapidly that none of us can know what it is or where it is going.

Bill Nye

How did we let an ideological resistance to inquiry become such a prominent part of our society?

Lester Bowie

We're just beginning to learn the importance of music in our society.

Matt Taibbi

Obsessed with success and wealth and despising failure and poverty, our society is systematically dividing the population into winners and losers, using institutions like the courts to speed the process.

Peter Drucker

Our society has become an employee society.

Peter Drucker

That knowledge has become the resource, rather than a resource, is what makes our society "post-capitalist.

Barbara Ehrenreich

The 'working poor,' as they are approvingly termed, are in fact the major philanthropists of our society.

Billy Crudup

I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.

Guy deBord

In our society now, we prefer to see ourselves living than living.