“If not excellence, what? If not excellence now, when?”
Source: The Little Big Things: 163 Ways To Pursue Excellence (2010), p. 9.
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“Have to sow excellent seeds to have an excellent life. Must start with sowing excellent thoughts.”
Life of Alexander
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Quoted by Plutarch in Life of Alexander http://books.google.com/books?id=vWIOAAAAYAAJ&q=%22for+my+part+I+assure+you+I+had+rather+excel+others+in+the+knowledge+of+what+is+excellent+than+in+the+extent+of+my+power+and+dominion%22&pg=PA167#v=onepage from Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden (1683)
“When given an opportunity, deliver excellence and never quit.”
Source: Rebel Without a Crew, or How a 23-Year-Old Filmmaker With $7,000 Became a Hollywood Player
His Biographers remark quoted in “Believing in Perfection” in New India Digest
“Excellence - Take what you have and do the BEST with it.”
“What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming.”
Interview in Hackers — Wizards of the Electronic Age (1985)
1980s
Context: What they had in common was mainly love of excellence and programming. They wanted to make their programs that they used be as good as they could. They also wanted to make them do neat things. They wanted to be able to do something in a more exciting way than anyone believed possible and show "Look how wonderful this is. I bet you didn't believe this could be done."
E. Payne, trans., vol. 2, p. 230
The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844; 1859)
“One that desires to excel should endeavour in those things that are in themselves most excellent.”