Standard of Excellence Quotes

I work hard and I have a standard of excellence - and I expect everyone at the Interior Department to meet that same standard. I delegate a lot. I might appear to be doing a lot of different things, but there's a strong team helping me. I believe we're going to have the strongest team of any agency in the Obama administration.

… we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us.

If English was good enough for Jesus Christ, it ought to be good enough for the children of Texas.

Revathi madam is a legend, and I have seen young actresses set her performance as a benchmark.

Dr. Buss set the bar high for the Lakers.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.

For those of us who spent our careers competing with David Broder, the hardest thing to abide was the inevitable comparison. If someone said Jack Germond - or Jules Witcover or Walter Mears or whoever - 'is a pretty good political reporter,' the default response would be, 'but he's no David Broder.'

Would Bill Gates or Steve Jobs have been considered above average 500 years ago? Who is to decide what is best?

Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

In all nations an exceptional man exists that compensates the deficiencies of the remainder. In those moments, when humanity is found collectively in a state of decadence, there always remain those exceptional beings as point of reference.

Please explain to me what being an icon is. How do you define it? I haven't been given a script. I don't know what the dialogues of an icon are.

I am the man that everyone is compared to in this business.

I never really think of anyone as models, even the models.

I do not think the Nobel institution gives you a certificate that everything you say is always right.

You play 20 games, you have one bad game, I think any team in this league will live with that.