Vince Lombardi

The quality of a person’s life is in direct proportion to their commitment to excellence, regardless of their chosen field of endeavour.

An American football coach, and executive in the National Football League (NFL).

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Excellence
Self-Improvment

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To settle for second best is a violation of the rules of simplicity, and it plants the seeds for disappointment, extra work, and more meetings. Most disturbing, it puts you in the worst possible business position: having to defend an idea you never believed in.

Ken Segall

Author and advertising creative director. Specializing in technology marketing, Segall was Steve Jobs' agency creative director for 12 years working for NeXT and Apple, and also for Dell, Intel and IBM.

Excellence
Perfectionism
Simplicity

God is in the details.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect and the last director of the Bauhaus, a seminal school in modern architecture.

Being Better
Excellence

Good enough is not enough.

Ken Segall

Excellence
Perfectionism
Simplicity

To put it bluntly, if you want to be an artist, you must have grit.

Angela Duckworth

An American academic, psychologist, and popular science author. She is the Professor of Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, where she studies grit and self-control.

Art & Creativity
Self-Improvment

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