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Cultivate a deep understanding of yourself - not only what your strengths and weaknesses are but also how you learn, how you work with others, what your values are, and where you can make the greatest contribution. Because only when you operate from strengths can you achieve true excellence.
Peter Drucker
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Only three things happen naturally in organizations: friction, confusion, and underperformance. Everything else requires leadership.
Peter Drucker
Only three things occur organically in organizations: discord, perplexity, and substandard productivity. All else necessitates guidance.
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You are what you do repeatedly every day. If excellence is something you're striving for, then it's not an accident. It's a habit.
Greg Plitt
'Your actions on a daily basis will determine who you become. If you aim for greatness, it must be intentional and consistent.'
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Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence
J. R. D. Tata
Strive for the highest quality and you will gain superiority.
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Excellence is my presence. Never tense, never hesitant.
The Notorious B.I.G.
Excellence is my being. Always confident, never doubting.
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Let excellence be your brand... When you are excellent, you become unforgettable. Doing the right thing, even when nobody knows you're doing the right thing will always bring the right thing to you.
Oprah Winfrey
Be a paragon of virtue... When you are exemplary, you become remarkable. Acting honorably even when nobody notices will always bring positive results.
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Excellence" is not a gift, but a skill that takes practice.
We do not act "rightly" because we are "excellent",
in fact we achieve "excellence" by acting "rightly".
Plato
Accomplishment is not an inheritance, but an art that requires training. We do not behave "correctly" because we are "accomplished", in fact we attain "accomplishment" by acting "correctly".
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We are what we repeatedly do... excellence, therefore, isn't just an act, but a habit and life isn't just a series of events, but an ongoing process of self-definition.
Aristotle
'Achievement is not a single act, but a pattern of behaviour and existence is not solely comprised of occurrences, but an ongoing journey of self-discovery.'
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It's the little things that make the big things possible. Only close attention to the fine details of any operation makes the operation first class.
J. Willard Marriott
'The minutiae are the building blocks of success; only careful scrutiny of its elements can create top-notch results.'
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We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is a habit.
Socrates
'Success is the result of consistent action taken towards a goal; excellence becomes second nature through regular practice.'
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There may be one fault in a man that conceals a thousand qualities, or one excellence that conceals a thousand faults. The little indicates much.
Shams Tabrizi
'A single blemish can mask a multitude of virtues, or one positive trait can obscure many shortcomings. The least can tell you the most.'
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The excellence of the Church does not consist in multitude but in purity.
John Calvin
The greatness of the Church does not lie in size but in righteousness.
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Love remains a relation with the Other that turns into need, transcendent exteriority of the other, of the beloved. But love goes beyond the beloved... The possibility of the Other appearing as an object of a need while retaining his alterity, or again,the possibility of enjoying the Other... this simultaneity of need and desire, or concupiscence and transcendence,... constitutes the originality of the erotic which, in this sense, is the equivocal par excellence.
Emmanuel Levinas
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It's not enough to do your best; you must know what to do & then do your best.
W. Edwards Deming
You must have a plan of action and strive to execute it with excellence.
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The power of excellence is overwhelming. It is always in demand, and nobody cares about its color.
Daniel James, Jr.
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If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It makes you go into detail that you can avoid. It takes a lot of energy out of you but that's the only way you finally actually achieve excellence. So in that sense, being finicky is essential.
J. R. D. Tata
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I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum.
Kanye West
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You have to be doing something you enjoy. That is a definition of happiness: Complete use of one's faculties along lines leading to excellence in a life affording them scope. It applies to women as well as to men. We can't all reach it, but we can try to reach it to some degree.
Jackie Kennedy
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God is infinite, so His universe must be too. Thus is the excellence of God magnified and the greatness of His kingdom made manifest; He is glorified not in one, but in countless suns; not in a single earth, a single world, but in a thousand thousand, I say in an infinity of worlds.
Giordano Bruno
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I know you won't believe me, but the highest form of Human Excellence is to question oneself and others.
Socrates
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Success and excellence are not the same. Excellence grows within a person, is largely within that person's control, and its meaning lasts. Success is measured externally, by comparison to others, is often outside our control, and is perishable.
Joe Paterno
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I look for the day...when the only criterion of excellence or position shall be the ability and character of the individual; and this time will come.
Susan B. Anthony
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I know that aiming at perfection has its drawbacks. It makes you go into details that you can avoid but that is the only way you can achieve excellence. So, in that case, being finicky is essential.
J. R. D. Tata
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It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so.
Georges Bernanos
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Top to bottom Michigan is about excellence, greatness. You have my pledge I will carry forward the excellence of Michigan football.
Jim Harbaugh
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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.
David Ogilvy
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Talk to yourself atleast once in a Day.. Otherwise you may miss a meeting with an EXCELLENT person in this World.
Swami Vivekananda
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Excellence is not an aspiration. Excellence is what you do in the next five minutes.
Tom Peters
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In the absence of clearly-defined goals, we become strangely loyal to performing daily trivia until ultimately we become enslaved by it.
Robert A. Heinlein
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Strive for excellence, not perfection, because we don't live in a perfect world.
Joyce Meyer
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Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
Laurence Olivier
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What we plant in the soil of contemplation, we shall reap in the harvest of action.
Meister Eckhart
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Anyone who has achieved excellence in any form knows that it comes as a result of ceaseless concentration.
Louise Brooks
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Unless you try to do something beyond what you have already mastered, you will never grow. Every job is a self portrait of the person who did it ... Autograph your work with excellence.
Vince Lombardi
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Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.
Don Shula
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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
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Excellence is a continuous process and not an accident.
Abdul Kalam
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The thing that keeps a business ahead of the competition is excellence in execution.
Tom Peters
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I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.
Ludacris
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Believe passionately in what you do, and never knowingly compromise your standards and values. Act like a true professional, aiming for true excellence, and the money will follow.
David Maister
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I wanted to change the rules of engagement, asking for more- from fewer. I was insisting that we had to have only the best people...If you wanted excellence, at a minimum, the ambience had to reflect excellence.
Jack Welch
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It is well to remember that there are five reasons for drinking: the arrival of a friend, one's present or future thirst, the excellence of the cognac, or any other reason
W. C. Fields
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Everything should be first-rate in a person, his face, clothes, soul and thoughts.
Anton Chekhov