Marshall Field Quotes

Really, who's the best at what they do? There's always room for improvement.

Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but we rather have those because we have acted rightly. We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

What is once well done is done forever.

Excellence is the unlimited ability to improve the quality of what you have to offer.

You don't reinvent yourself; you get better with what you do.

Every time you go out on the ice, there are slight flaws. You can always think of something you should have done better. These are the things you must work on.

I always say the greats just get better.

With every gig we have to prove ourselves better than the night before.

We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

I think about trying to make it better. That's all I do when we play 'Even Flow' or anything off of 'Ten': 'Let's do this the best we can.'

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Whatever I do, I want to be the best.

Whatever I do, I always want to give my best.

You have to be a professional in every single thing you do.

I just want to keep improving in every game.

I want to try and get better in every facet of the game.

Don't worry about being famous or making money; the most important thing is being the best. You have to become a master of your craft, and everything else will come.

I know perfection in this game is very hard to do and pretty much impossible, but it's what I strive for because I think it's what you should do as a quarterback and as a leader.

You get rid of the mistakes by playing hard.

There's always stuff you can improve on. Even when you do something right you can always try to go out and do something better and improve.

You're never perfect in this sport; there is always something to learn.

The paradox of perfection is that you should try and achieve it by doing quality work even though you know you can never achieve it.

I know people know how good I am playing basketball... All I do is just use it as motivation: keep getting better, keep doing the same stuff and doing it even better.

I love recreating, and I love elevating - anything I do I want do ten times better every time.