Outstanding Work Quotes

'Hamilton' is not just the best musical I've ever seen. It may be the best thing I've ever seen.

Continue to do common things in an uncommon way. Continue to be 'all in.' Continue to apply 'best is the standard.' Continue to be a person of excellence in everything you do.

Do your job brilliantly and the cream will rise to the top.

Only undertake what you can do in an excellent fashion. There are no prizes for average performance.

There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.

Before Missy, there was no comparison to what Missy was doing.

Walter [Hill] basically brought me into that ["Wild Bill Hickok"], and it was one of the great experiences. It was extraordinary stuff. He wrote this kind of American Shakespeare. But I played my part for four episodes, and the rest is history!

Don't expect a pat on the back for merely doing your job, but know that you'll get one for doing it exceptionally well.

The pressure is self-imposed because I always want to do excellent work, and I always want to be interesting to people watching me.

What matters is that you do great work, and you will definitely be remembered for that for years to come.

What we do may be small, but it has a certain character of permanence; and to have produced anything of the slightest permanent interest, whether it be a copy of verses or a geometrical theorem, is to have done something utterly beyond the powers of the vast majority of men.

Celebrate exceptional productivity, rather than raise average efforts.

It's the sum of the parts that make up the whole, so in my opinion excellence comes from how one undertakes to do something. It all begins with the thought process - which is creative and exalted to produce something out of the ordinary.

'Last Man On Earth' is just one of the most original projects I've ever been involved with.

People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.