Those who are blessed with the most talent don't necessarily outperform everyone else. It's the people with follow-through who excel.
I look at directing as a sporting event. It's a race, a marathon. It's great when it clicks, which is why I push my crews so hard so we can excel.
Geniuses are commonly believed to excel other men in their power of sustained attention. . . But it is their genius making them attentive, not their attention making geniuses of them.
Mistakes will not end your business. If you are nimble and willing to listen to constructive criticism you can excel by learning and evolving.
When you have the enthusiasm and the passion, you end up figuring how to excel.
Each of us, if we would grow, must be committed to excellence. The championships, the money, the color; all of these things linger only in the memory. It is the spirit, the will to excel, the will to win; these are the things that endure.
No art, however minor, demands less than total dedication if you want to excel in it.
In order to excel, you must be completely dedicated.
No crime is so great as daring to excel.
An All-American is an ordinary person with an extraordinary desire to excel. You don't get to the top of the mountain by just dreaming. It's nice to dream. But it's the work ethic and pride that makes you get to that mountain top and that level of success.
Let us carefully observe those good qualities wherein our enemies excel us; and endeavor to excel them, by avoiding what is faulty, and imitating what is excellent in them.
People of genius do not excel in any profession because they work in it, they work in it because they excel.
When you're good at making excuses, it's hard to excel at anything else.
Many people who excel are self-taught.
Artists are often having very similar conversations across the various disciplines through which they choose to excel, but you rarely see them exist in the same pages or spaces.
There is a sort of economy in Providence that one shall excel where another is defective, in order to make men more useful to each other, and mix them in society.
The only exercise I excel at is jumping to conclusions.
Id like to see the University of Western Australia and the other four or five universities in Western Australia really excel through having some of the greatest minds in the world attracted to it.
Always strive to excel, but only on weekends.
One must see in every human being only that which is worthy of praise. When this is done, one can be a friend to the whole human race. If, however, we look at people from the standpoint of their faults, then being a friend to them is a formidable task. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Thus is it incumbent upon us, when we direct our gaze toward other people, to see where they excel, not where they fail.