Quotes for Excellence

Reducing our dependence on foreign energy - that is critically important to America's economic future. Excellence in education - if we're not the best educated, we're not going to be the most powerful for very long.

Kent Conrad

I believe Ofsted measures poverty. It measures deprivation. It doesn't measure excellence.

Angela Rayner

When I brought home a 98 percent on a test, my father would say, 'Ah, ah, where are the other two points? Go and get them, then bring them back.' My father and Nigerian culture has always stood for excellence.

Jidenna

I became to myself an imaginary figure of great excellence, daring and glamor.

Rudolph Valentino

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.

Edsger Dijkstra

You make a product, and you put it out, and you do it with as much excellence and also wisdom as possible, and then it's the Lord that drives it and determines where it will go.

David A. R. White

But, I don't want to assume that our tradition of excellence is a guarantee of future excellence.

Dave Heineman

It's really fun to see young kids trying to find excellence in themselves.

Jewel

Stay away from excellence at all costs; it stinks.

Michael Leunig

I thank Burns & Wilcox for its support and look forward to representing the company's values and commitment to excellence on the links.

Jimmy Walker

Excellence always sells.

Earl Nightingale

I do think that this woke culture represents the antithesis of everything that sports stands for - the meritocracy, excellence, and being able to speak your mind are all to me firmaments of the sports culture.

Clay Travis

Like so many other grammar schools that flourished in Britain before they were abolished through a mix of ideology and political folly, Harrow County was a fiercely competitive institution, where all boys were taught to strive for excellence. It was precisely because of this demanding regime that results were so good.

Michael Portillo

Opportunity expands when there is excellence and choice in education, when taxes are lowered, when every citizen has affordable, portable health insurance and when constitutional freedoms are preserved.

Mitt Romney

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.

James Bryant Conant

I feel opera is an expression of artistic excellence. To do it is expensive, as there's a requirement for an orchestra, good voices, excellent sets, and the fact that productions generally have only short runs. But I believe it's something we ought to achieve as a nation.

Michael Portillo