excellence

One should waste as little effort as possible on improving areas of low competence. It takes far more energy and work to improve from incompetence to mediocrity than it takes to improve from first-rate performance to excellence.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

Anything worth doing, is worth doing right.

Don't wait for a huge platform before you give of your best performance

When I think of excellence in motion, I think of the big picture. Because of the magnitude of this concept, I look at it from an aerial perspective. It is a mindset that challenges the boundaries of self-induced limits__hat point where you aspire to exceed your expectations, where the mind-body-achievement connection resides and wins time and time again.

Just make up your mind at the very outset that your work is going to stand for quality... that you are going to stamp a superior quality upon everything that goes out of your hands, that whatever you do shall bear the hallmark of excellence.

Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

The excellent person manages himself. He will not allow the environment to manage him.

Those who distinguish themselves in what they do and become disinct always score distinction. Don't follow the crowd. Distinguish yourself with a special commitment and you will excel.

and the best, if not heedfully used, will prove the word. The better and keener the knife is, the sooner and deeper will it cut thy fingers, if thou take not heed (647).

Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.

I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best

when i run i run fastwhen i read time whirls pastwhatever you do todaydo it in the best possible way

We don__ get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life.

Generally places that are comfortable with excellence don__ call themselves centers of excellence. Has anyone heard of a Princeton University Center of Excellence? Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of Excellence?

In other words, we are never freer than when we become most ourselves, most human, most just, most excellent, and the like.

When you do the common things in an uncommon way, you'll command the attention of the world.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.