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Excellence is being thwarted not only by laziness but by reckless attachment to causes, programs, and - in some cases, leaders.
Managers who master the hammer and expect all problems to behave like nails find organizational life confusing and frustrating.
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[W]hat counts is that one perceives excellence and dares to give it expression, which sounds little but is in fact a great deal.
The more we sympathize with excellence, the more we go out of self, the more we love, the broader and deeper is our personality.
It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.
Neither a life of anarchy nor one beneath a despot should you praise; to all that lies in the middle a god has given excellence.
Excellence when concealed, differs but little from buried worthlessness. [Lat., Paullum sepultae distat inertiae Celata virtus.]
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?
The American people and our allies around the world can rely on CIA's vigilance, excellence, and determination to proudly serve.
Quality doesn't mean we have to be 100 percent better in any one thing; it means we strive to be 1 percent better in 100 things.
Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant.
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.
I never thought that one day that this NAS Jax would be the center of aviation excellence in the Southeast and from pole to pole.
A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there complete in the mind, if only at the back.
Neither a life of anarchy nor a life under a despot should you praise. To all that lies in the middle has a god given excellence.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
When you begin moving toward excellence, you will find very little competition. You're competing with only 20% of the population.
I don't settle in any other area of my life when it comes to excellence, so why should I lower my standards when it comes to boys?
You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Apple has a culture of excellence that is, I think, so unique and so special. I'm not going to witness or permit the change of it.
When once the mind has raised itself to grasp and to delight in excellence, those who love most will be found to love most wisely.
Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
The idea of voluntary segregation went against every value I had been taught. What did being born black have to do with excellence?
Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.
Humility is the softening shadow before the stature of Excellence, And lieth lowly on the ground, beloved and lovely as the violet.
What the great learning teaches, is to illustrate illustrious virtue; to renovate the people; and to rest in the highest excellence.
Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
Many people can reach for and achieve excellence. To do this consistently is what separates masters and geniuses from everyone else.
It's just really about trying to do whatever it is I do at a level of excellence. That's really all I'm trying to do while I'm here.
Lack of respect for the worker. This nourishes disconnection, fear, anger, phoniness, and all the bad stuff that impedes excellence.
We do not do well except when we know where the best is and when we are assured that we have touched it and hold its power within us.
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.
Ancient history, besides the still unequalled excellence of the writers, is the best instrument for cultivating the historical sense.
When we talk about Oscars, it's almost as a symbol of excellence, and the American public and the worldwide public accept that symbol.
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Consistent alignment of capabilities and internal processes with the customer value proposition is the core of any strategy execution.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
The quality of a person's life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavor.
Recognise excellence. Celebrate weirdness and innovation. Oddballs should be cherished, if they can do something other people can't do.
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
I thank Burns & Wilcox for its support and look forward to representing the company's values and commitment to excellence on the links.
I never considered Miles Davis a perfectionist; I always considered him as an excellence-ist, where deviation is actually kind of cool.
I know most of the black players who preceded and followed me at Duke. They all contribute to our tradition of excellence on the court.
In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
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.
Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.
New Orleans jazz is a complex and embracing art form that began about the same time as the blues and encompassed many of its excellences.
The French have a saying that whatever excellence a man may exhibit in a public station he is very apt to be ridiculous in a private one.
PERFECTION, n. An imaginary state of quality distinguished from the actual by an element known as excellence; an attribute of the critic.