Quotes about Excellence

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be.

You just can't bring your A game to every situation. Knowing when to embrace Good Enough is what gives you the opportunity to be truly excellent when you need to be. We're not suggesting you put shit work out there. You need to be able to be proud of it, even if it's only "okay." But attempting to be indiscriminately great at everything is a foolish waste of energy.

You're better off with a kick-ass half than a half-assed whole.

So start chopping. Getting to great starts by cutting out stuff that's merely good.

A problem is a chance for you to do your best

The excellence of the trial by jury in civil cases appears to depend on circumstances foreign to the preservation of liberty. The strongest argument in its favor is, that it is a security against corruption. As there is always more time and better opportunity to tamper with a standing body of magistrates than with a jury summoned for the occasion, there is room to suppose that a corrupt influence would more easily find its way to the former than to the latter.

Lord, make my way prosperous, not that I achieve high station, but that my life may be an exhibit to the value of knowing God.

The reality is that every human being is placed on this planet, and one of the things that drives humans is their need for meaning, and if you can make every job meaningful, then you will guarantee that every job will be done to its highest level of excellence.

I don't want to just be the best player. I want to be a great person, too.

I can probably go down in history as the best backup point guard ever in NBA history.

Competition brings out the best in everybody.

I just have to play my best game. Not think about anything else - that is the only concern I have and that we should all have.