“Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.” InspirationalLeadershipResultsEffortFocusHard WorkCommitmentIntelligentExcellencePerseveranceFocusedAccidentsProductivityPlanningPersistencePioneersPlannersKick AssEffort And Hard WorkInspirational CommitmentPlanning For SuccessCommitment To ExcellenceMaximum Effort Author:Paul J. Meyer
“Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave by doing brave acts.” ActionPeaceResultsMoralCourageHabitMoralitySelf ImprovementBraveryBraveExcellenceBe BraveMoral CourageBravery And CourageActs Of CourageMoral VirtuesMoral ExcellenceHeroic ActsActs Of Bravery Author:Aristotle
“A passive mindset "manages" to live with mediocre, but an active mindset "leads" to change until excellence results.” ResultsExcellenceActiveMindsetManagePassiveMediocre Author:Orrin Woodward
“Excellence in art is largely the result of attention to minutiae, and--prayer.” ArtPrayerResultsAttentionArt IsExcellenceMinutiae Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Everybody keeps calling for Excellence - excellence not just in schooling, throughout society. But as soon as somebody or something stands out as Excellent, the other shout goes up: "Elitism!" And whatever produced that thing, whoever praises that result, is promptly put down. "Standing out" is undemocratic.” ResultsCallingStandingPraiseExcellenceExcellentStanding OutSchoolingElitism Author:Jacques Barzun
“Trust gives you the permission to give people direction, get everyone aligned, and give them the energy to go get the job done. Trust enables you to execute with excellence and produce extraordinary results. As you execute with excellence and deliver on your commitments, trust becomes easier to inspire, creating a flywheel of performance.” PeopleGivingDoneJobsEnergyResultsProduceInspireEasierCreatingCommitmentPerformancesExcellenceExtraordinaryPermissionGet The Job Done Author:Douglas Conant
“Usually I object when someone makes over-much of men's work versus women's work, for I think it is the excellence of the results which counts.” ThinkingMenResultsObjectsExcellenceVersus Author:Margaret Bourke-White
“Has your work become very easy? Do you find you can do it with little effort? Has it ceased to impose any strain or fatigue upon you? Do you no longer feel loss of vitality after a long spell of it? Can you now do it as easy as water rolls off a duck's back? If so, look out! Do some stock-taking. Examine your output.... Work done with little effort is likely to yield little result. Every job can be done excellently or indifferently. Excellence necessitates effort-hard, sustained, concentrated effort.” IfsFeelsLooksLittlesLongHardDoneJobsEasyWaterCan DoWorkLossResultsEffortExcellenceYieldSpellsDucksStrainYou Can Do ItVitalityFatigueWork DoneOutput Author:B. C. Forbes
“Science is not sacrosanct. The mere fact that it exists, is admired, has results is not sufficient for making it a measure of excellence. Modern science arose from global objections against earlier views and rationalism itself, the idea that there are general rules and standards for conducting our affairs, affairs of knowledge included, arose from global objections to common sense.” IdeasFactsResultsViewsCommonModernStandardsExcellenceMereAffairCommon SenseSufficientObjectionsModern ScienceConductingRationalism Author:Paul Feyerabend