Excellence
excellence detail attention
“Excellence is in the details. Give attention to the details and excellence will come.”
—Perry Paxton
Excellence alternative choice
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle (384-322BC)
excellence art training act habit
“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.”
― Aristotle (384-322BC)
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“If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as a Michaelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music or Shakespeare wrote poetry. He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, 'Here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.”
― Martin Luther King Jr. (1929-1968)
great small things way
“If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way”
― Martin Luther King Jr. (1969-1968)
worth doing right
“Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.”
― Hunter S. Thompson (1937-2005)
time do right over
“If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?”
― John Wooden (1910-2010)
extraordinary fit
“Human tragedies:
We all want to be extraordinary
and we all just want to fit in.
Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.”
― Sebastyne Young
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“Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.”
― Robert A. Heinlein (19-7-1988)
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“Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.”
― Booker T. Washington (1856-1935)
chance many things excellent life
“We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.”
― Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
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“Excellence does not come from believing in excellence, but from constant change, challenge, and improvement.”
― Jeffrey Fry
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“Passion makes you good, but pride stops you to get better.”
― Amit Kalantri
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“for the best possible state of your soul, as I say to you: Wealth does not bring about excellence, but excellence makes wealth and everything else good for men, both individually and collectively.”
― Plato (428-348BC)
yardstick of quality
"Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
— Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
Excellence alternative choice
“Excellence is never an accident. It is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, and intelligent execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives - choice, not chance, determines your destiny.”
― Aristotle (384-322BC)
excellence right practice
“Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".”
― Plato (428-348BC)
time exellence maturity
“It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity.”
― Publilius Syrus (85-43BC)
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“A society to be successful must maintain a balance between nurturing excellence and encouraging the average to improve.”
― Kuan Yew Lee (1923-2015)
quality yardstick excellence
“Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren’t used to an environment where excellence is expected.”
—Steve Jobs (1955-2011)