Excellence
454 quotes: 40 by Keith Craft, 414 from other voices.
Other voices on Excellence
- Practice is the best of all instructors.
- Pride makes us do things well. But it is love that makes us do them to perfection.
- Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the way.
- Put in 5% more effort than "there's only so much I can do" and you'll be way ahead of the game.
- Quality in a service or product is not what you put into it. It is what the client or customer gets out of it.
- Quality is free. It's not a gift, but it's free. The 'unquality' things are what cost money.
- Quality is more important than quantity. One home run is much better than two doubles.
- Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort. There must be the will to produce a superior thing.
- Quality is not an act, it is a habit.
- Quality is the result of a carefully constructed cultural environment. It has to be the fabric of the organization, not part of the fabric.
- Quality means doing it right when no one is looking.
- Ready writing makes not good writing; but good writing brings on ready writing.
- Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
- Simplicity, of all things, is the hardest to be copied.
- Small things, done consistently in strategic places, create major impact.
- Standards become habits. Habits become outcomes.
- Stop trying to be spectacular. Start being consistent.
- Strive for excellence, not perfection.
- Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
- Strive for work so good that someone will care about it 20 years from now.
- Success is not measured by what you do compared to what somebody else does. Success is measured by what you do compared to what you are capable of doing.
- Success is peace of mind in knowing you did your best.
- Success is peace of mind which is a direct result of self-satisfaction in knowing you did your best to become the best you are capable of becoming.
- Success is simply doing anything to the utmost of one's ability--making as much of one's position as it is possible to make.
- Success produces confidence, confidence relaxes industry, and negligence ruins that reputation which accuracy had raised.
- Success rests not only on ability, but upon commitment, loyalty, and pride.
- Successful people do ordinary things with extraordinary consistency, commitment and focus.
- The amateur avoids discomfort. The pro leans in.
- The ancient Greek definition of happiness was the full use of your powers along lines of excellence.
- The answer to the big questions in running is the same as the answer to the big questions in life: Do the best with what you've got.
- The best advertisement of a workshop is first-class work. The strongest attraction to Christianity is a well-made Christian character.
- The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner.
- The best perfection of a religious man is to do common things in a perfect manner. A constant fidelity in small things is a great and heroic virtue.
- The best techniques are the simple ones executed right.
- The better a man is morally, the less conscious he is of his virtues. The greater the artist, the more aware he must be of his shortcomings.
- The business schools reward difficult complex behaviour more than simple behaviour, but simple behaviour is more effective.
- The cost of distraction is deeper than lost time – it’s lost depth.
- The difference between an amateur and a professional is in their habits. An amateur has amateur habits. A professional has professional habits. We can never free ourselves from habit. But we can replace bad habits with good ones.
- The Difference between ORDINARY and EXTRAORDINARY is that little EXTRA.
- The goal is not to be perfect by the end. The goal is to be better today.