Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
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- We do not choose our own parts in life, and have nothing to do with selecting those parts. Our simple duty is confined to playing them well.
- We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. Life is brief, and then you die you know…
- We live in a world that celebrates work and activity, ignores renewal and recovery, and fails to recognize that both are necessary for sustained high performance.
- We must live our lives to a higher standard. The standard we set for ourselves must makes us feel uncomfortable. If the standard you set for yourself allows you to feel comfortable, you must re-evaluate the bar you set for yourself.
- We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness.
- What I'm doing right now, I'm chasing perfection.
- What is done in love is done well.
- What looks like skill is often persistent revision.
- What we hope ever to do with ease we may learn first to do with diligence.
- Whatever the work is, do it well – not for the boss, but for yourself.
- Whatever you do, do it well. Do it so well that when people see you do it they will want to come back and see you do it again and they will want to bring others and show them how well you do what you do.
- Whatever you do, do with all your might.
- Whatever you want to do, if you want to be great at it, you have to love it and be able to make sacrifices for it.
- Whatever your life’s work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- When a man has no longer any conception of excellence above his own, his voyage is done; he is dead; dead in the trespasses and sins of blear-eyed vanity.
- When a man is no longer anxious to do better than well he is done for.
- When excellence becomes a habit, then that’s just who you are.
- When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- When industry builds upon nature, we may expect pyramids.
- When we do the best that we can, we never know what miracle is wrought in our life, or in the life of another.
- When you deliver the best service of which you are capable, striving each time to excel all your previous efforts, you are making use of the highest form of education.
- When you undervalue what you do, the world will undervalue who you are.
- When your work speaks for itself, don't interrupt.
- Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart.
- Whether it be for life or death, do your own work well.
- While perfection is never achievable, positive change is always possible.Sarah SchulmanCommonly attributed
- With "good enough" the shirkers stop In every factory and shop; With "good enough" the failures rest And lose to men who give their best; With "good enough" the car breaks down And men fall short of high renown. My son, remember and be wise, In "good enough" disaster lies.
- With regard to excellence, it is not enough to know, but we must try to have and use it.
- Work is only done well when it is done with a will.
- Working on fewer things, but doing each thing with more quality and accountability, can be the foundation for significantly more productivity.
- World-class begins where your comfort zone ends is a rule the successful, the influential and the happiest always remember.
- You can advance only by being larger than your present place; and no man is larger than his present place who leaves undone any of the work pertaining to that place.
- You can practice shooting eight hours a day, but if your technique is wrong, then all you become is very good at shooting the wrong way. Get the fundamentals down and the level of everything you do will rise.
- You can’t be busy and frenetic and bouncing off the walls with 100 projects if you’re obsessed about doing something really well.
- You don’t control the outcome. You control the quality of effort you put in. That’s what you should hold yourself accountable for.
- You don’t need to have extraordinary effort to achieve extraordinary results. You just need to do the ordinary, everyday things exceptionally well.
- You don’t succeed by being perfect. You succeed by doing good work, consistently.
- You have to discipline yourself to do something the right way until it’s second nature.
- You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.
- You have to practice even, maybe especially, when it hurts.