Excellence Quotations | Page 2

Everything is perfect in the universe - even your desire to improve it.

We often choose a friend as we do a mistress - for no particular excellence in themselves, but merely from some circumstance that flatters our self-love.

One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect.

James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Let each become all that he was created capable of being.

We are proud to have brought this exciting week of live theater to the families of our state for the past nine years. The diversity and excellence of our performing artists has added immeasurably to the success of this program. We are determined to give every child the opportunity to see a live performance, and we hope they will continue to make attendance at the theatre a part of their lives as they become young adults.

We are proud that we have fine examples of athletic and academic excellence amongst our varsity football athletes, ... These students are examples for the entire student body at Cathedral City High School.

When we find a problem, we have service excellence teams that work through them.

We believe we should keep going. We're telling a story about excellence, about going from being very good to extraordinary.

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

whenever I read a passage that moves me, I transcribe it in my diary, hoping my fingers might learn what excellence feels like.

When you say you'll meet someone at 11:00 AM, be there at 10:45. When you promise a check on the 30th, send it on the 28th. Whatever you agree to do, do it a bit more. Start with your employees, then extend it to everyone you deal with. News will soon get around that you are a person of your word.

I think I always just want to get better at whatever Im doing... Always strive for excellence.

It's an excellent movie. Really excellent.

We want excellence in every area. We don't want excuses.

The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile. Therefore strive for excellence not perfection.

Talented people almost always know full well the excellence that is in them.

Moral excellence is the bright consummate flower of all progress.

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.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Refuse to be average.

As the excellence of steel is strength, and the excellence of art is beauty, so the excellence of mankind is moral character.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

To suppose universal laws of nature capable of being apprehended by the mind and yet having no reason for their special forms, but standing inexplicable and irrational, is hardly a justifiable position. Uniformities are precisely the sort of facts that need to be accounted for. Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.

To be in Christ is the source of the Christian life; to be like Christ is the sum of his excellence; to be with Christ is the fullness of his joy.

The fact is, the difference between peak performers and everybody else are much smaller than everybody else thinks.

The method of doubt must be applied to civilization; we must doubt its necessity, its excellence, and its permanence.

Design can be both a manifestation of a company's design ethic and an outward communication of a company's design ethic and drive for excellence.

I have a 41-year track record of investing excellence… what do you have?

The photographer is the contemporary being par excellence; through his eyes the now becomes the past.

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

My father once told me that anyone who worked for three dollars an hour owed it to himself to put in four dollars' worth of work.

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.

People of excellence will always be brought before people of influence.

Those who serve upon our juries have maintained a standard of fairness and excellence and demonstrated a vision toward the administration of justice that is a wellspring of inspiration.

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

Pursue excellence and ignore success. If you are excellent you will be successful

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

it is more to my personal happiness and advantage to indulge the love and admiration of excellence, than to cherish a secret envy of it.

The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.

Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.

The good and the bad mix themselves so thoroughly in our thoughts, even in our aspirations, that we must look for excellence rather in overcoming evil than in freeing ourselves from its influence.

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent,

Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.

We are honored to be recognized for excellence in the area of public awareness,

In every power, of which taste is the foundation, excellence is pretty fairly divided among the sexes.

Excellence is everything today, and most people aren't excellent. If you're not excellent - like truly excellent at what you do - you're toast.

We ran a fair program before. But the standard of excellence is higher. The quality is higher.

The fact that Marsha took a program like Texas Tech that wasn't even on the college basketball map, took it to a national title and maintained that excellence says a lot about her.

Any approach to strategy quickly encounters a conflict between corporate objectives and corporate capabilities. Attempting the impossible is not good strategy. It is just a waste of resources.

Some wits, too, like oracles, deal in ambiguities, but not with equal success; for though ambiguities are the first excellence of an imposter, they are the last of a wit.

Patience is also a form of action.

Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.

By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.

To pretend to describe the excellence, the greatness or duration of the happiness of heaven by the most artful composition of words would be but to darken and cloud it; to talk of raptures and ecstasies, joy and singing, is but to set forth very low

Just keep taking the next step and keep having excellence in the ordinary.

Be an evangelist with your excellence.

Life is a gift. Never forget to enjoy and bask in every moment you are in. The Personal Excellence Blog - CelestineChua.co

Many of our graduates have gained national and international recognition for their creative excellence. We welcome the support of the Ontario government in giving our local artists a chance to make a huge difference both here and abroad.

She has been an example of stability and excellence over the past five years.

Sirius Telecom combines the vision of what's next with the hindsight of what works. Their clients demand leading edge technology and world-class service. Their commitment to quality, support and excellence matches our own, which is why this is a great strategic match that will help ensure Sirius continues to be a leader in partition switching services.

No one ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him; it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction

Next to excellence, comes the appreciation of it.

I wish him well. Now he can continue to pursue his dream of excellence in education.

I don't come in with the desire to change anything particular or with a special vision to go anywhere different from where we've been. I want to build on the excellence on what's been there. I'm looking forward to building on what we've had.

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.

Carlos is an outstanding young coach and we're happy to be able to announce one of our former student-athletes as head coach. Carlos has been around this team for the past three seasons and has helped them rise to not only the top of the SEC, but helped put UK on the map as one of the premier programs in the country. I'm confident this level of excellence will continue under his guidance.

Business Objects is known for the excellence of both its business intelligence applications and its exceptional customer support organization. With an industry leading product platform and a growing customer base, the need to continue to deliver exceptional customer service is paramount. We are delighted that Business Objects has selected Knova's service resolution management applications for customer service and look forward to a strong partnership.

Base Envy withers at another's joy,/ And hates that excellence it cannot reach.

I look forward to continuing my coaching career at Kent State. My goal, as it has been since the day I arrived at Kent State, is to continue the tradition our program has developed. We will strive to maintain the high level of excellence Kent State basketball has achieved in recent years.

I have never been more excited and energized about a head coaching appointment in my career than I am with the hiring of Ben Jacobson as our men's basketball coach. Ben is ready to take this step. He has the support of the current team and our recruiting class and he will do a great job of maintaining the excellence that we have built in our men's basketball program.

I have absolute confidence in the Midway executive team and their product lineup for the next few years shows the team's commitment to excellence and innovation in game design and marketing.

I feel like I am being put on notice that the number of shows with artistic excellence is going to be far greater than when we started in 1989. And that means the festival has done its job.

Fs and Ds and incompletes aren't the American ideal and the American standard of excellence, not when it comes to protecting our people. We can do better. We must do better than that.

He was a strong leader and dedicated his paper to excellence as well as financial success, and there weren't many of those.

He has a standard of excellence he wants to set the bar at. That's what drives the man. He has a way of envisioning his dream and he doesn't compromise what he wants that end result to be.

Helping customers achieve their full potential and reach their business goals is what we care about most. This year's Pinnacle Award winners are inspiring examples of what can be achieved when creativity and commitment to excellence are combined with Microsoft Dynamics applications.

The purpose of these changes is to focus more resources to support the football team. Our goal as an organization is to improve each and every day. These changes reflect that goal and stay true to our long-term vision for the football club and our fans, namely to achieve excellence in everything we do.

We took some of those individuals and conducted some special training on range-of-motion and other exercises. So now our data more accurately reflects the excellence in the area.

We are extremely pleased with our home here and with the high quality of our associates who have helped build our success. For more than 67 years, Midland has sustained a tradition of excellence and has grown to become a leader in the specialty insurance marketplace over the last 40 years. We are excited to be starting a new chapter in our success, and we look forward to many more years of growth and stability.

He represents the American tradition of excellence and honesty and integrity. In a sense, he was the Steven Spielberg of his time.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

We must have excellence, but we must also have accessibility to that excellence.

We must do the best we can with what we have.

We look forward to continuing to work closely with Minister Chong as a full partner and to ongoing discussions about government support for the new summer sport excellence plan to help Canadian summer athletes reach the podium at upcoming Olympic Games.

HP is pleased to announce that VITEC Solutions, LLC is being honored to receive the HP Performance Excellence Award for Q2 2005. With partners like VITEC Solutions, HP can look forward with confidence to continued growth.

has set the standard for excellence in economic policy-making.

has fostered a program that pursues excellence on and off the field. Actually, let me amend that: It pursues excellence on the field and pursues the best legal representation money can buy off the field.

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as president and chief operating officer gives us confidence he will deliver more of the same at Georgia-Pacific. In Bill's 32 years with Koch, he has done an exemplary job of building our operations excellence capability. I am certain Joe and Bill, along with the outstanding Georgia-Pacific team, will continue Georgia-Pacific's proud tradition.

Joe's tremendous leadership throughout his six years as Koch Industries' president and chief operating officer gives us confidence he will deliver more of the same at Georgia-Pacific. Bill, during his 32 years with Koch, has done an exemplary job of building our operations excellence capability. I am certain Joe and Bill, along with the outstanding Georgia-Pacific team, will continue Georgia-Pacific's proud tradition.

Journalistic excellence and enterprise is at the heart of CNN's philosophy. We believe these Awards play a valuable role in the promotion and encouragement of quality journalism in Africa.

I think that what it says is from an external point of view, from a national stage, we're being recognized for excellence in what we're doing. When I first came on board with the CU College of Music in fall of 1999, one of the things I had hoped to see was some recognition at some point from these national awards. And for us to have had the 13 in five years has exceeded my expectations, but I think clearly represents the great work the students and faculty are doing.

I will continue to focus on global strategy and to do everything I can to help Yahoo! realize its full potential and enhance its leading culture of technology and product excellence and innovation.

It is an honor to have been elected to the MPA board of directors. This allows me the opportunity to be a part of continuing the tradition of newspaper excellence in Missouri.

It is always an honor for our men and women to be recognized for their efforts in the classroom. Each year our swimming and diving team not only strives for excellence in the water but also in academics.

I think there's definitely something to having guys around who have been there before, who can tell you how to change your game to keep up and maintain excellence over a period of time. I mean, it's pretty obvious: the longer you play, the smarter you get.

Our guys aren't perfect. They strive for excellence and calls do get missed. But I guess the difference is that some of those calls are missed because we're human beings, and previously they were missed because we picked and chose.

Our judges selected auto.consumerguide.com as a standard of excellence that other Web sites should compare themselves to. Designed with the consumer in mind, auto.consumerguide.com stood out from the 2,100 entries we received from 33 countries around the world.

Over the past three years, Tyco has come a long way. We have a strong and independent board, a rebuilt management team, outstanding corporate governance rankings and an operational culture that puts growth and operating excellence at the top of the management agenda.