Some people insist that 'mediocre' is better than 'best.' They delight in clipping wings because they themselves can't fly. They despise brains because they have none.
Robert A. HeinleinTag: wisdom life inspirational truth philosophy excellence critics
[All the ancient wisdom] tells us that work is necessary to us, as much a part of our condition as mortality; that good work is our salvation and our joy; that shoddy or dishonest or self-serving work is our curse and our doom. We have tried to escape the sweat and sorrow promised in Genesis - only to find that, in order to do so, we must forswear love and excellence, health and joy.
(pg. 44, "The Unsettling of America")
Tag: love work joy salvation escapism excellence genesis
I am a man of simple tastes easily satisfied with the best
Winston S. ChurchillTag: excellence
There has always been an elegance to the application of excellence.
Richard DiazTag: elegance excellence
If I cannot do great things, I can do small things in a great way
Martin Luther King Jr.Tag: success excellence
Human tragedies:
We all want to be extraordinary
and we all just want to fit in.
Unfortunately, extraordinary people rarely fit in.
Tag: talent fitting-in excellence
Good human work honors God's work. Good work uses no thing without respect, both for what it is in itself and for its origin. It uses neither tool nor material that it does not respect and that it does not love. It honors nature as a great mystery and power, as an indispensable teacher, and as the inescapable judge of all work of human hands. It does not dissociate life and work, or pleasure and work, or love and work, or usefulness and beauty. To work without pleasure or affection, to make a product that is not both useful and beautiful, is to dishonor God, nature, the thing that is made, and whomever it is made for. This is blasphemy: to make shoddy work of the work of God. But such blasphemy is not possible when the entire Creation is understood as holy and when the works of God are understood as embodying and thus revealing His spirit. (pg. 312, Christianity and the Survival of Creation)
Wendell BerryTag: beauty nature god work usefulness creation respect excellence
Do ordinary things extraordinarily well.
Gregg HarrisTag: inspirational success excellence
But such occasions of excellence became less and less frequent. As her technique became sounder, [her] sincerity became less necessary.
Thornton WilderTag: sincerity excellence routine
To have a man whose name is on the label showing such interest, commitment, and determination for the best is a wonderful thing. This is someone who will throw money at quality, who believes in being the best. Never knock it. Would you prefer to have a bean counter in corporate headquarters, someone who never comes near the brewery, making decisions solely on the basis of the bottom line and profit margins?
Charles W. BamforthTag: quality beer excellence commitment quality-assurance corporate-ethics
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