Excellence Quotes - Page 39

• I demand excellence from the people I work with.

  Ricky Schroder

  People, Demand

  "Ricky Schroder directing daughter's acting debut in 'Our Wild Hearts'". www.foxnews.com. March 4, 2013.

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• Teach them the quiet words of kindness, to live beyond themselves. Urge them toward excellence, drive them toward gentleness, pull them deep into yourself, pull them upward toward manhood, but softly like an angel arranging clouds. Let your spirit move through them softly.

  Pat Conroy

  Kindness, Moving, Angel

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• The little that is completed, vanishes from the sight of one who looks forward to what is still to do.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Motivational, Positive, Patience

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• The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Inspirational, Motivational, Change

  "The Treasury of Humorous Quotations". Book by Evan Esar, p. 103, 1951.

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• If you believe in unlimited quality and act in all your business dealings with total integrity, the rest will take care of itself.

  Frank Perdue

  Inspirational, Motivational, Integrity

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• There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Inspirational, Motivational, Perfection

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• Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture, without appeal to any part of our weaker nature, without the georgeous trappings of painting or music, yet sublimely pure, and capable of a stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show. The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as in poetry.

  Bertrand Russell

  Art, Truth, Science

  Philosophical Essays (1910) no. 4

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• To do great things is difficult; but to command great things is more difficult.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Leadership, Vision, Empowering Others

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.160, Penguin

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• When we see the need for deep change, we usually see it as something that needs to take place in someone else. In our roles of authority, such as parent, teacher, or boss, we are particularly quick to direct others to change. Such directives often fail, and we respond to the resistance by increasing our efforts. The power struggle that follows seldom results in change or brings about excellence. One of the most important insights about the need to bring about deep change in others has to do with where deep change actually starts.

  Robert E. Quinn

  Change, Teacher, Struggle

  Robert E. Quinn (1996). “Deep Change: Discovering the Leader Within”, Jossey-Bass

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• Since every man is obliged to promote happiness and virtue, he should be careful not to mislead unwary minds, by appearing to set too high a value upon things by which no real excellence is conferred.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Real, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Arthur Murphy, Francis Pearson Walesby (1825). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D..: The Rambler”, p.317

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• Sacred Bands and elite squadrons aren't what the mercenaries' guild is about. Field them at your peril.

  Janet Morris

  Jealousy, Discipline, Band

  Janet Morris (1986). “Beyond Sanctuary”, Ace Books

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• If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence.

  Ken Blanchard

  Perfection, Ifs

  Ken Blanchard (2010). “The Heart of a Leader”, p.105, David C Cook

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• Excellence is not an accomplishment. It is a spirit, a never-ending process.

  Lawrence M. Miller

  Leadership, Accomplishment, Spirit

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• Excellence happens when you try each day to both do and be, a little better than you were yesterday!

  Pat Riley

  Yesterday, Coaching, Trying

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• Focusing on strengths is the surest way to greater job satisfaction, team performance and organizational excellence.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Jobs, Team, Focus

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• A centre of excellence is, by definition, a place where second class people may perform first class work.

  Michael Faraday

  Class, People, May

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• Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than this practice; there is no other way of life than this way of life.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Expression, Practice, Growth

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.32, Shambhala Publications

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• It takes far less energy to move from first-rate performance to excellence than it does to move from incompetence to mediocrity.

  Peter Drucker

  Moving, Energy, Doe

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  Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.

  Peter Drucker

  Organization, Confusion, Three

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• Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

  Kent Conrad

  Powerful, America, Long

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• The thing I have learned at IBM is that culture is everything.

  Lou Gerstner

  Culture, I Have Learned, Ibm

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• There has to be a way to redirect employee's driving ambition and to channel it more productively. There is. Create heroes in every role. Make every role, performed at excellence, a respected profession.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Hero, Ambition, Roles

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• Define excellence vividly, quantitatively. Paint a picture for your most talented employees of what excellence looks like. Keep everyone pushing and pushing toward the right-hand edge of the bell curve.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Curves, Hands, Looks

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.163, Simon and Schuster

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• In urging all writers to be steadfast in reliance on the ultimate victory of excellence, we should no less strenuously urge upon them to beware of the intemperate arrogance which attributes failure to a degraded condition of the public mind. The instinct which leads the world to worship success is not dangerous. The book which succeeds accomplishes its aim. The book which fails may have many excellencies, but they must have been misdirected.

  George Henry Lewes

  Book, Victory, Arrogance

  George Henry Lewes (1891). “The Principles of Success in Literature”

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• Every artist wants his work to be permanent. But what is? The Aswan Dam covered some of the greatest art in the world. Venice is sinking. Great books and pictures were lost in the Florence floods. In the meantime we still enjoy butterflies.

  Romare Bearden

  Happiness, Time, Art

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