top of page
.png){kind=small}
"Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort."
Standard
Customized
More
"An excellence mind pursues perfecting, not perfection."
Author Name
Personal Development
"There is an infinite difference between a little wrong and just right, between fairly good and the best, between mediocrity and superiority."
Author Name
Personal Development
"As Aristotle said, 'Excellence is a habit.' I would say furthermore that excellence is made constant through the feeling that comes right after one has completed a work which he himself finds undeniably awe-inspiring. He only wants to relax until he's ready to renew such a feeling all over again because to him, all else has become absolutely trivial."
Author Name
Personal Development
"You've just got to focus on excellence and try not to be distracted by the news and the rumors and the absurdities of the stories that were coming out."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Excellence is a process that should occupy all our days."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Over time, repetition brings perfection, which brings success."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Make a plural hey while the singular sun is up there. Not just the hey, but the best hey. Excellence should be your priority!"
Author Name
Personal Development
"Excellence doesn't come by obeying doctrines. Excellence comes through recognizing the flaws in the prevailing doctrines of the society and throwing them away if necessary in the path of progress."
Author Name
Personal Development
"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."
Author Name
Personal Development
"Excellence has a loud mouth, let it speak on your behalf."
Author Name
Personal Development
More
"When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package."
Man
"Cursing is invoking the assistance of a spirit to help you inflict suffering. Swearing on the other hand, is invoking, only the witness of a spirit to an statement you wish to make."
Help
"Skill is the unified force of experience, intellect and passion in their operation."
Experience
"Beauty deprived of its proper foils and adjuncts ceases to be enjoyed as beauty, just as light deprived of all shadows ceases to be enjoyed as light."
Beauty
"Large fortunes are all founded either on the occupation of land, or lending or the taxation of labor."
Labor
"The higher a man stands, the more the word vulgar becomes unintelligible to him."
Man
"All violent feelings have the same effect. They produce in us a falseness in all our impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the pathetic fallacy."
Emotional
"It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled."
Life
"To make your children capable of honesty is the beginning of education."
Education
"It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect."
Architecture
bottom of page