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Training programs shouldn't be designed to deliver competence; they must be dedicated to producing excellence. Serious organizations don't aspire to be comfortably above average.
Brandon Webb
Training
Programs
Must
Above
Excellence
Deliver
Comfortably
Average
Producing
Organizations
Aspire
Dedicated
Serious
Designed
Competence
My father values talent. He is colorblind and gender neutral. When Donald Trump is in charge, all that counts is ability, excellence, and effort.
Ivanka Trump
Father
Values
Gender
Charge
Ability
Excellence
Colorblind
Neutral
He
Talent
Counts
Trump
Effort
Donald
Donald Trump
The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner
Life
Man
Will
Free
Nation
Every
Mediocrity
Striving
Free Man
Excellence
Highest
Idea
Implies
Goal
Survive
Which
Themselves
Standards
Stands
Amiable
Phase
Set
If we are a metaphor of the universe, the human couple is the metaphor par excellence, the point of intersection of all forces and the seed of all forms. The couple is time recaptured, the return to the time before time.
Octavio Paz
Time
Before
Universe
Par
Seed
Excellence
Point
Couple
Return
Forces
Metaphor
Human
Forms
Intersection
A common danger tends to concord. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak. In Communism, inequality comes from placing mediocrity on a level with excellence.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon
Communism
Strong
Concord
Exploitation
Mediocrity
Danger
Weak
Excellence
Tends
Inequality
Common
Placing
Level
Perfect friendship is the friendship of men who are good, and alike in excellence; for these wish well alike to each other qua good, and they are good in themselves.
Aristotle
Friendship
Good
Men
Wish
Other
Alike
Excellence
Perfect
Well
Themselves
Who
Each
Excellence is about fighting and pursuing something diligently, with a strict and determined approach to doing it right. It's okay if there are flaws in the process - it makes it more interesting.
Charlie Trotter
Strict
Fighting
Approach
Diligently
Okay
About
Determined
Something
More
Excellence
Pursuing
Makes
Doing
Process
Interesting
Flaws
Right
Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert
Life
Best
You
Yourself
Goals
Find
Something
Excellence
Pursue
Doing
Commit
Interested
Really
Your
Set
When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music.
Denis Diderot
Music
Age
Old
Old Age
Painting
Say
Temperament
Poetry
Excellence
Superstition
Allowed
Perform
Goodbye
Task
Human
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.
Douglas Conant
You
Trust
People
Inspire
Job
Energy
Extraordinary
Everyone
Aligned
Easier
Give
Direction
Gives
Excellence
Results
Deliver
Performance
Execute
Becomes
Enables
Permission
Go
Get
Commitments
Done
Them
Produce
Creating
Your
A woman who places a high priority on performance and excellence is seen as imperial. A man is seen as demanding and tough.
Faye Wattleton
Man
Woman
Seen
Tough
Demanding
High
High Priority
Excellence
Imperial
Performance
Priority
Places
Who
It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.
Jewel
Young
Kids
Find
See
Excellence
Trying
Young Kids
Themselves
Really
Fun
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
Joe Paterno
Game
Worth
Losing
Sense
Excellence
Tragedy
Heartbreaking
Your
Stay focused on your mission, remain steadfast in your pursuit of excellence, and always do the right thing.
Mark Esper
Do The Right Thing
Right Thing
Focused
Stay
Stay Focused
Steadfast
Excellence
Remain
Pursuit
Mission
Always
The Right Thing
Your
Right
Thing
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don't really know what the final result will be before you have it.
May-Britt Moser
Good
You
Result
Will
Focus
Before
Final
Hunt
Details
Both
Excellence
Perfection
Know
Lot
Common
Really
Researcher
Designer
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
Weed
Virtue
Faults
Out
Scarce
Some
Excellence
Allied
Without
Vice
Nearly
The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.
Pearl S. Buck
Work
Joy
Word
Enjoy
Secret
One Word
Something
Excellence
Contained
Know
Well
How
The Secret Of
A lot of companies have nice-sounding cultural values like integrity, respect, and excellence, but if those values don't map to specific behaviors, then they quickly get lost. Instead, we see what's called a 'halo effect' where leaders tend to overvalue certain attributes and undervalue others.
Peggy Johnson
Respect
Integrity
Values
Lost
Others
Those
See
Excellence
Tend
Instead
Leaders
Like
Attributes
Halo
Undervalue
Cultural
Effect
Lot
Quickly
Get
Behaviors
Where
Then
Certain
Companies
Map
Specific
I am thrilled to become international 'Vogue' editor at Conde Nast International, which has a real commitment to journalistic excellence, and to have the opportunity to write for a wider global audience through the 'Vogue' websites.
Suzy Menkes
Commitment
Opportunity
Websites
Become
Thrilled
Vogue
Excellence
Through
Write
Journalistic
Global
Audience
Editor
Am
Real
Which
International
Wider
If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today. As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
Thomas J. Watson
Work
Today
You
Achieve
Excellence
Doing
Get
Quit
Want
Second
One of the biggest problems of 'In Search of Excellence' is that it focused on giant, publicly-traded companies. There are thousands upon thousands of excellent companies. Some of them are two-person accountancies in a community of three thousand people.
Tom Peters
People
Problems
Three
Community
Giant
Focused
Thousand
Thousands
Some
Excellence
Excellent
Biggest
Them
Companies
Search
Dullness in matters of government is a good sign, and not a bad one - in particular, dullness in parliamentary government is a test of its excellence, an indication of its success.
Walter Bagehot
Success
Government
Good
Matters
Sign
Bad
Indication
Good Sign
Bad One
Excellence
Parliamentary
Particular
Test
Dullness
I did very extensive diligence on Al Jazeera English, the network from which Al Jazeera America is going to be derived, and it's really very clear that they have long since established a reputation for excellence and integrity and objectivity.
Al Gore
Integrity
Long
Reputation
Diligence
Objectivity
Network
Excellence
Clear
Since
Very
America
Did
Going
Established
Which
Really
Derived
English
Al
Al Jazeera
Extensive
I think that more diversity is a good thing, and fresh points of view articulated by people who are committed to excellence in journalism is a beneficial change in the American media landscape.
Al Gore
Good
Change
People
Diversity
Think
Beneficial
More
Excellence
Good Thing
Points
Journalism
Fresh
Articulated
American
Committed
Landscape
View
Who
Media
Thing
As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.
Alex Campbell
Quality
Progress
Prosperity
Power
Profit
Paper
Rather
More
Only
More Power
Excellence
Magnitude
Simply
Come
Concerned
Than
Size
Which
Convertible
Mean
Productivity
Standards
Consequence
Bobby Charlton's record was quite substantial. I couldn't think anybody would beat that. It is an achievement par excellence.
Alex Ferguson
Achievement
Think
Par
Would
Record
Charlton
Excellence
Beat
Quite
Substantial
Anybody
Bobby
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