#excell

Do not use that foreign word "ideals." We have that excellent native word "lies." ↗

— Henrik Ibsen

#foreign #ideals #lies #native #use

[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") ↗

— Wendell Berry

#excellence #genesis #joy #love #salvation

Only the mediocre artist is always at his best. ↗

— Victor J. Banis

#artist #excellence #mediocrity #writer #writing

There were profound reasons for his attachment to the sea: he loved it because as a hardworking artist he needed rest, needed to escape from the demanding complexity of phenomena and lie hidden on the bosom of the simple and tremendous; because of a forbidden longing deep within him that ran quite contrary to his life's task and was for that very reason seductive, a longing for the unarticulated and immeasurable, for eternity, for nothingness. To rest in the arms of perfection is the desire of any man intent upon creating excellence; and is not nothingness a form of perfection? ↗

— Thomas Mann

#eternity #excellence #nothingness #perfection #sea

Leaders are readers, disciples want to be taught and everyone has gifts within that need to be coached to excellence. ↗

— Wayde Goodall

#gifts #leadership #reading #success #talent

There is a great deal of cyberpunk that I admire, especially the work of William Gibson which I think is excellent. Somehow he speaks from his own heart and cyber punk is what comes out. ↗

— Robert Sheckley

#comes #cyber #deal #especially #excellent

We don’t get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#life

There were far worse strategies in life than to try to make each aspect of one's existence a minor work of art. ↗

— Pat Conroy

#detail #excellence #art

Learn the rules before you break them. ↗

— Steven Taylor Goldsberry

#learning #writing #writing-craft

I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done. ↗

— Valerie Bertinelli

#being #better #days #done #excellent