Top 1200 Personal Excellence Quotes & Sayings - Page 8

Personal power is really the issue. It is only through tremendous attention to detail that you will be able to gain personal power and searing self-honesty.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

The excellence of every art, must consist in the complete accomplishment of its purpose

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

Daily ripples of excellence -over time- become a tsunami of success

Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.

Disruption starts with committing to excellence and taking a stand for your customer.

Almost never does a single company have excellence in a multiplicity of disciplines.

Cats are the ultimate narcissists. You can tell this because of all the time they spend on personal grooming. Dogs aren't like this. dog's idea of personal grooming is to roll in a dead fish.

One of the many, many things I hate about war is how it trivializes the personal. The big themes, the broad sweep, the emergency measures, the national identity, all the things that a particular kind of man with a particular kind of power urge adores, these are the things that become important. War gives the lie to the personal, drowns it in meetings, alarms, sacrifices. The personal is only allowed to return as death.

What I've learned over the years is that the craft of songwriting is trying to take the personal and make it universal - or in the case of telling a story, taking the universal and making it personal.

When a man appreciates only eating and sleeping, what excellence has he over the reptiles?

Sometimes you do things for personal reasons. I made a very personal movie in We Are Marshall. I was afraid of flying, for a long time, and that's a movie about a plane crash.

The personal contact is a personal thing. The fact that some people don't know their neighbors, I don't think that technology is at fault. You don't lose anything with technology. You gain other avenues of understanding.

We don't want to share our personal problems or personal journey, it's too private - but we should be proud to be carers; it's hard work, it's true work, it's unconditional love.

Subjugating the enemy's army without fighting is the true pinnacle of excellence.

And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge.

For the highest exercise of judicial duty is to subordinate one's personal pulls and one's private views to the law of which we are all guaradians - those impersonal convictions that made a society a civilized community, and not the victims of personal rule.

Last year my boyfriend gave me a painting - a very personal one. I really prefer personal gifts or ones made by someone for me. Except diamonds. That's the exception to the rule.

If we commit ourselves to the successful completion of a task, then we personify excellence.

Human excellence means nothing Unless it works with the consent of God.

Vision is dandy, but sustainable company excellence comes from a huge stable of able managers.

Real excellence and humility are not incompatible one with the other, on the contrary they are twin sisters.

Mere experience, if it is not matched by deep concentration, does not translate into excellence.

Champions play as they practice. Create a consistency of excellence in all your habits.

You cannot learn very much about excellence from studying failure.

I believe in striving for excellence. I sweat the big and small stuff! I do not apologize for this.

Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

Excellence endures and sustains. It goes beyond motivation into the realms of inspiration.

One has to endure betrayal and disloyalty and, hardest of all , another person's excellence of character or intellect

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

Always aim at perfection for only then will you achieve excellence

Personal weapons are what raised mankind out of the mud, and the rifle is the queen of personal weapons.

By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.

Excellence in health means devoting your life to ending poverty.

I think people direct good films when they feel personal to them, not because it's a famous book or something. It has to something move over that and somehow become personal to the director.

I have already said and will continue to say that I won't respond to personal abuse, and I never make any personal abuse, ever, to anybody. I just don't do that kind of politics.

Mostly with commercial work, it isn't about personal vision. It's not a personal effort, it's work for hire. That's more my attitude with those. You just want to be a professional worker.

The great lesson of the Internet revolution is not that people never want personal service, just that they won't pay for personal service that does not add real value to the transaction.

Personal mastery is the discipline of continually clarifying and deepening our personal vision, of focusing our energies, of developing patience, and of seeing reality objectively.

Everything in New York seems to merit preserving. If it's not historical, it's personal. If it's not personal, it's cultural. But you can't. You can't save everything. You just have to pack it up in your brain and take it with you when you go.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?

The Mysteries are the Mysteries, and ultimately personal maybe the most personal thing in the universe. Evangelism, in my opinion, is a failure of the imagination. Beware of prophets: the best visions are the ones they leave in the desert.

A brand new mediocrity is thought more of than accustomed excellence.

To encourage excellence is to go beyond the encouraged mediocrity of our society

The Grammys are supposed to be awards for artistic excellence… Iggy Azalea’s not excellent.

The Greek temple is the creation, par excellence, of mind and spirit in equilibrium.

He's known as Sting. I have my own personal name for him, but that shall remain a personal name.

One of the difficult things, especially about blogging, is that you put all of your personal out there, into the political. And what's been difficult, for me at least, is trying to keep some of the personal for myself.

The only way to get out of mediocrity is to keep shooting for excellence.

We are not being true to the artist as a man if we consider his art work junk simply because we differ with his outlook on life. Christian schools, Christian parents, and Christian pastors often have turned off young people at just this point. Because the schools, the pastors, and the parents did not make a distinction between technical excellence and content, the whole of much great art has been rejected with scorn and ridicule. Instead, if the artist's technical excellence is high, he is to be praised for this, even if we differ with his world view. Man must be treated fairly as man.

I don't see my work as being all that personal. I've used my personal experience in the world, of course, or at least my way of looking at the world. But I think that's changed as I've gotten older.

The media and their journalists are merely megaphones for stupidity, the verb par excellence.

If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.

If there hadn't been a sixth day, man would not exist; copper would always be copper; and lead just lead. It's true that everything has its Personal Legend, but one day that Personal Legend will be realized. So each thing has to transform itself into something better, and to acquire a new Personal Legend, until, someday, the Soul of the World becomes one thing only.

The quality of a man's life is in direct proportion to his commitment to excellence.

Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.

Being exposed to the Ryan Murphy machine, it is very much a personal extension of him. So, if I can learn from that and tell longer stories that are quite personal, and balance that out with features, then that would be the ultimate dream.

We need excellence in public education and if the teachers can't do it, we'll send in a couple of policemen.

American election was really personal for Putin because he believed that Clinton is a personal enemy. He genuinely believed she was behind the Moscow protests in 2012, 2011.