Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
Other voices on Excellence
- Be so good they can’t ignore you.
- Being a “promising beginner” is fun, but being an actual expert is infinitely more gratifying.
- Being professional is upholding high standards in low moments. It’s caring to do a good job even in jobs we don’t love; treat others with respect even if we’re disrespected; and do right even if we’re wronged.
- Better to complete a small task well, than to do much imperfectly.
- Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.
- Business dispatched is business well done, but business hurried is business ill done.
- By persistent labor man may attain to all excellence.
- Champions are brilliant at the basics.
- Champions behave like champions before they’re champions; they have a winning standard of performance before they are winners.
- Champions never complain, they are too busy getting better.
- Character is more important than talent.
- Choose always the way that seems the best, however rough it may be. Custom will render it easy and agreeable.
- Coaching is simplicity. It’s getting players to play better than they think they can.
- Competition is a by-product of productive work, not its goal. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others.
- Continuous improvement is better than delayed perfection.
- Deeply understanding the basics in any field will put you miles ahead of your competitors.
- Design is not just what it looks like and feels like. Design is how it works.
- Details matter, it’s worth waiting to get it right.
- Did I win? Did I lose? Those are the wrong questions. The correct question is: Did I make my best effort? That’s what matters. The rest of it just gets in the way.
- Do a good job. You don't have to worry about the money; it will take care of itself.
- Do all that you can do in a perfect manner every day, but do it without haste, worry, or fear.
- Do every act of your life as if it were your last.
- Do fewer things, work at a natural pace, and obsess over quality.
- Do not look for approval except for the consciousness of doing your best.
- Do what thou dost as if the earth were heaven, and thy last day the day of judgment.
- Do your best and then relax.
- Do your best under every circumstance, and believe that every circumstance will give its best to you.
- Do your work, respecting the excellence of the work, and not its acceptableness.
- Doing little things well is a step toward doing big things better.
- Doing the best at this moment puts you in the best place for the next moment.
- Don't be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little jobs well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves.
- Don’t be different just to be different. Be different to be better.
- Don't bother just to be better than others. Try to be better than yourself.
- Don’t ever let good enough be good enough.
- Don’t fear failure. Fear average.
- Don’t join an easy crowd; you won’t grow. Go where the expectations and the demands to perform are high.
- Don't limit your challenges; challenge your limits. Each day we must strive for constant and never ending improvement.
- Don’t lower your ambition to the level of your skills. Build your skills to the level of your ambition.
- Don’t measure yourself by what you have accomplished, but by what you should have accomplished with your ability.
- Don’t put in average effort and claim that you want exceptional results.