aspiring for excellence Quotes

Always surround yourself with people who are even more talented and competent than you.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Raising your level of performance requires a proper mentality and meaning from within. This gives you the ability and drive to work on the things necessary to go to a higher level. When people ask me how to raise their level of performance, the first thing I ask is, How important is it to you?

Perfection is impossible without humility. Why should I strive for perfection, if I am already good enough?

We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great.

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

'Good enough' stopped being good enough a long time ago. so why not be great?

I've always been a guy that has strived for dominating, not only winning.

Always work with people that are better at their craft than you are.

I want to be great, something special.

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

I haven't done anything yet, but I want to be the best in the world.

Successful people...focus on the rewards of success: learning from their mistakes and thinking about how they can improve themselves and their situations.

Once you become complacent and once you're happy with your performance or whatever it is, I don't think you'll get better as quickly.

Each of us is merely one human being, merely an experiment, a way station. But each of us should be on the way toward perfection, should be striving to reach the center, not the periphery.

Indeed, the real question is not, "Why greatness?" but "What work makes you feel compelled to try to create greatness?" if you have to ask the question, "Why should we try to make it great? Isn't success enough?" then you're probably int he wrong line of work.

It's good to have critics because that's what motivates you and helps you take your game to another level.

Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

I wanted to undertake the challenge of daring to be great.

Don't set your goals to be a star. Set your goals to be the best that you can be and go from there.

I start a book and I want to make it perfect, want it to turn every color, want it to be the world. Ten pages in, I've already blown it, limited it, made it less, marred it. That's very discouraging. I hate the book at that point. After a while I arrive at an accommodation: Well, it's not the ideal, it's not the perfect object I wanted to make, but maybe—if I go ahead and finish it anyway—I can get it right next time. Maybe I can have another chance.

It's hard to soar with the eagles when you're surrounded by turkeys.

Take the middle 70 percent and tell them what they need to do to get into the top 20 percent.

Say "no" to the good and say "yes" to the best.

I want to dance always, to be good and not evil, and when it is all over not to have the feeling that I might have done better.