Pastoral Resources

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

Such discussions help us very little to enjoy what has been well done in art or poetry, to discriminate between what is more and what is less excellent in them, or to use words like beauty, excellence, art, poetry, with a more precise meaning than they would otherwise have.

When a team outgrows individual performance and learns team confidence, excellence becomes a reality.

Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.

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.

Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

If you are going to achieve excellence in big things, you develop the habit in little matters. Excellence is not an exception, it is a prevailing attitude.

I think the definition of an artist is not necessarily tied into excellence or talent; an artist is somebody who, if you took away their freedom to make art, would lose their mind.

Don't strive to be perfect. Strive for excellence.

The Athenians are right to accept advice from anyone, since it is incumbent on everyone to share in that sort of excellence, or else there can be no city at all.

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.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Excellence is the gradual result of always striving to do better.

The true spirit of delight, the exaltation, the sense of being more than Man, which is the touchstone of the highest excellence, is to be found in mathematics as surely as poetry.

Life's like a play: it's not the length, but the excellence of the acting that matters.

I had spent many years pursuing excellence, because that is what classical music is all about... Now it was dedicated to freedom, and that was far more important.

What house, bloated with luxury, ever became prosperous without a woman's excellence?