The quality of our Airmen in Montana coupled with the proven mission excellence of the 120th Airlift Wing, and historical need for assets to fight the devastating forest fires we continue to see in Montana and the Northwest United States, should have mandated the relocation of these assets to Montana.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
Excellence is a better teacher than mediocrity. The lessons of the ordinary are everywhere. Truly profound and original insights are to be found only in studying the exemplary.
The test of the artist does not lie in the will with which he goes to work, but in the excellence of the work he produces.
Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.
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'm especially honored that The Black Gents will debut Off-Broadway and pay tribute to The Tuskegee Airmen and other ancestors of that time who have embodied excellence, self-determination, and self-discipline.
Of my English friends, I should find language too poor to speak the just praise and the excellence which shines in their characters and lives.
I have always struggled to achieve excellence. One thing that cycling has taught me is that if you can achieve something without a struggle it's not going to be satisfying.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
The noblest search is the search for excellence.
If you're holding onto negative stuff from before, you cannot deliver excellence.
Excellence can be as strong a uniting force as solid vision.
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.
It is the growth of advertising in this country which, more than any single element, has brought the American magazine to its present enviable position in points of literary, illustrative and mechanical excellence.
The tourist who moves about to see and hear and open himself to all the influences of the places which condense centuries of human greatness is only a man in search of excellence.
I grew up in Philadelphia in a time where we took it for granted that we were supposed to be young and gifted and black. It was a culture of excellence - and all my friends were more talented than I was.
No student ever attains very eminent success by simply doing what is required of him: it is the amount and excellence of what is over and above the required, that determines the greatness of ultimate distinction.
Productivity is never an accident. It is always the result of a commitment to excellence, intelligent planning, and focused effort.
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
There are some faults so nearly allied to excellence that we can scarce weed out the vice without eradicating the virtue.
Excellent firms don't believe in excellence - only in constant improvement and constant change.
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.
You can't be perceived as 'the black actress who doesn't get the same kind of roles as the white actress.' You gotta run the same race. You gotta give the same quality of performances. You gotta have the same standard of excellence, even though people know that you're coming to the race in a deficit. That's just what life is about.
We think that excellence in investing comes from focus.
The mandate I have received and for which I will speak with heart and head to implement over the next seven years had its four pillars - an inclusive citizenship, equality and participation and respect in a creative society creating an excellence in everything we Irish do.
Let America first praise mediocrity even, in her children, before she praises... the best excellence in the children of any other land.
I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
Next to excellence is the appreciation of it.
Healthcare providers will compete to offer the best record of patient safety at the lowest prices. Hospitals and patients will benefit from having accurate information about areas of excellence and areas that must be improved.
I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.
A high-speed connection is no more an essential civil right than 3G cell phone service or a Netflix account. Increasing competition and restoring academic excellence in abysmal public schools is far more of an imperative to minority children than handing them iPads.
Losing a game is heartbreaking. Losing your sense of excellence or worth is a tragedy.
James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.
Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.