Feeds:
Posts
Comments

Posts Tagged ‘Excellence’

Today is a national holiday in the United States which commemorates the life of civil rights leader (Martin Luther King, Jr.)  who sought to bring “equality under law” to all citizens of our country.  One of the ways he sought to do this was by bringing dignity and equality to ALL work – not just for the well educated or the well paid – but for all who work their best and make our nation a better society for it.  The pursuit of excellence (“doing your best”) in any endeavor uplifts us all.  The following are two quotes expressing this idea:
 
All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
 
    —     Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
If a man is called to be a street sweeper, he should sweep streets even as Michelangelo painted, or Beethoven composed music, or Shakespeare wrote poetry.  He should sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will pause to say, here lived a great street sweeper who did his job well.
 
    —     Martin Luther King, Jr.
 
.    
On This Day In:
2022 What Do You See?
2021 Lite It Up
  Some Day
2020 No Answers Yet
  120 Day Health / Weight Update (Jan 2020)
2019 Stationary Target
2018 And Firmly
2017 Nearer My Goal To Thee
2016 Relatively Simple Actions
2015 And Yet, You Did
2014 Difficult Learning
2013 Four Things To do
2012 When I Was Young…
  Emergence
   

Read Full Post »

Some people have greatness thrust upon them.  Very few have excellence thrust upon them.
    —    John W. Gardner
.
On This Day In:
2021 Or Blog Every Day
Every Woman Should Have One
2020 Where Are We Going?
2019 One Before I Go
2018 And Blog Posts, Too
2017 Just Doin’ It
2016 Definitely Not Bell Shaped
2015 Dreadful Pity
2014 Worse Than Useless
2013 Personal Prisons
2012 So, Not Yet Then
2011 Real Love

Read Full Post »

Daily ripples of excellence over time become a tsunami of success.
    —     Robin S. Sharma
.
On This Day In:
2021 Become Daily
Just Pickin’
2020 So, You Think You Know The Answer?
The One You Come Running To
2019 His Promises, OUR Hopes
2018 Where I Write
2017 At Last, An Honest Philosopher…
2016 Fake It ‘Til You Make It
2015 Hell Toupée
2014 Corrected And Amended
2013 Too Few
2012 Three Characters
2011 Universal Payment
2010 Privatizing the TSA?  (An old – and long – post, but still relevant!!)

Read Full Post »

Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.
   —    John W. Gardner
.
On This Day In:
2022 Are You Confused?
2021 Working On The Ordinary
Smoothed My Jagged Edges
2020 Republican Senators Should Vote For Conviction Of #45
2019 Carry It
2018 Simple
2017 Knowledge Pays
2016 Brief Glimpses And Full Glances
2015 Pursuing Perspective
2014 Wearing Down?
2013 Labouring Under A Curse
2012 Listen To Yourself
2011 Career Tips (Part 1)
No Captain Dunsel

Read Full Post »

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.
    —    John W. Gardner
.
On This Day In:
2022 One World (Our Only Place)…
2021 Move The Heart
Join Hands
2020 He Broke Even
Whoever / Whatever
2019 The Right Anger
Another P&P Review
2018 Does Fatalism Equal Mental Health?
2017 Choice
2016 Growing Worlds
2015 Change The Tide
Martyr, n.
2014 You, Too!
2013 Bitter Stand
2012 Lost For Words
2011 On Market Reactions…

Read Full Post »

The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity.  Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
   —    John W. Gardner
.
On This Day In:
2022 No Ulterior Motive
2021 A Soul Passing
I Hear You Singing In The Wire
Thank You, Georgia!
2020 Implications
2019 Just To…
2018 Still Going…
2017 Great Risk
2016 Robbery
2015 Humanity Plus
2014 Dinner For Two?
2013 Exercise For Those Over 50
2012 Tearful Joy!!
Except When He’s Left

Read Full Post »

In every one of us there are two ruling and directing principles, whose guidance we follow wherever they may lead;  the one being an innate desire of pleasure;  the other, an acquired judgment which aspires after excellence.
    ―    Socrates
.
On This Day In:
2022 A Wonderful Tension
2021 Little And Large Choices
I Got Something To Say
Alternate Reality
2020 When?
2019 Two Guides
2018 A Call For You
2017 Because I Read
2016 On What Matters…
2015 Social Security
2014 Bewitching
2013 Visiting Joy
2012 Dedication To Today
2011 Project Second Chance – Adult Literacy
Turning Coal Into Diamonds

Read Full Post »

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.
     ―    Mahatma Gandhi
No work is insignificant.  All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.
     ―    Martin Luther King Jr.
.
On This Day In:
2021 Why I Play The Lottery
C’mon And Dream Along
2020 #45 In A Nutshell
Old Man Wishin’…
2019 Three Down, Three To Go
2018 Too Significant
2017 Shadows
2016 Still Blurry
2015 For Awhile Anyway
2014 By Contrast
2013 A Very Long Time…
2012 Raise And Support
2011 Naturally
2010 A Quick Sunday Morning Read
Giants Win Game 4 In Shutout 4 to 0!!!

Read Full Post »

If you want to achieve excellence, you can get there today.  As of this second, quit doing less-than-excellent work.
     —   Thomas J. Watson
.
On This Day In:
2017 Ents
2016 Are You Sure?
2015 Distracted
2014 What It Takes
2013 We Are
2012 Utopian
2011 Seen Any Black Swans Lately?

Read Full Post »

Every job is important and achieving excellence should be the goal.  This is true for work, school, art and life.
    —    Rebecca Barrett
.
On This Day In:
2022 Strumming And Changing Chords
2021 B U
Blueprint Blue
2019 I Struggle With One At A Time
2018 An Infectious Political Cancer
Site Update / Poems Page Evolution
2017 Our Thirst
2016 History Favors The Victor
2015 This We’ll Leave Them
2014 Sounds Like Faux News To Me
2013 Reasons
2012 American Libertarianism
2011 The Goal

Read Full Post »

%d bloggers like this: