Quotes About Technical Excellence

#1. What kind of judgment does one apply, then, to a work of art? I believe that there are four basic standards: (1) technical excellence, (2) validity, (3) intellectual content, the world view which comes through and (4) the integration of content and vehicle.

Francis A. Schaeffer

#2. When my sixth grade teacher opened the class with subtle praise for the guardsmen shooting four people to death at Kent State, I'd given up arguing with her by that point. But I was very riled up inside and vowed that I would never forget that.

Jello Biafra

#3. Between goal and success, there is one critical thing - perseverance: it is the fundamental belief to always succeed, the determination to turn goal to gold, the greatness to never give up, the foresight to dream that enables you to make it happen.

Ifeanyi Enoch Onuoha

#4. Like many lazy people, once I started work I could not stop; perhaps that is why we avoid it.

Cyril Connolly

#5. I am comfortable with my level of public discourse.

Neil Armstrong

#6. The pain of failure had led me to understand that technical excellence was a moral requirement.

Paul Kalanithi

#7. Happiness for the average person may be said to flow largely from common sense - adapting one-self to circumstances - and a sense of humor.

Beatrice Lillie

#8. Yeah, my son likes a lot of guitar bands. He gave me something the other day which was really good. He'll burn a CD for me full of things that he has, so he's a pretty good call if I want to check some of that stuff out ... The other two aren't quite into that yet.

Bruce Springsteen

#9. The human body is vapor materialized by sunshine mixed with the life of the stars.

Paracelsus

#10. What freedom does a starving man have? The answer is that starvation is a tragic human condition- perhaps more tragic than loss of freedom. That does not prevent these from being two different things.

Thomas Sowell

#11. Christianity does NOT replace the technical. When he tells you to feed the hungry and doesn't give you lessons in cookery. If you want to learn THAT, you must go to a cook rather than a Christian.

C.S. Lewis

#12. Seeing her face--strangely--like being home again, but also like meeting a beautiful girl for the first time.

Christina Lauren

#13. I'm not stuck strictly doing hip-hop. Songs from the dance/electronic scene are my favorite to make and remix, and I like that world.

AraabMuzik

#14. Organizational maturity is not just about technical excellence or process efficiency, but also about business effectiveness, agility, innovation intelligence, and people-centricity.

Pearl Zhu

#15. In fact, in an agile project, technical excellence is measured by both capacity to deliver customer value today and create an adaptable product for tomorrow.

Jim Highsmith

#16. Let's try to count the number of Nobel prize-winners that have emerged from scientific centres of excellence like the Weizmann Institute and Haifa's technical university, the Technion. There has to be at least 25.

Zubin Mehta

#17. Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.

C.S. Lewis

#18. James Cameron's films have always been distinguished by ground-breaking technical excellence.

Roger Ebert

#19. If you are lonely when you're alone, you are in bad company.

Jean-Paul Sartre

#20. Society doesn't have values. People have values.

Milton Friedman

#21. Kildall, the innovator, followed his passion for technical excellence and was shocked that IBM wouldn't follow him. Gates, the imitator, took his cues from IBM every step of the way, because he believed that following Big Blue was the smartest way to follow the money.

Lewis Schiff

#22. It is amazing, the number of business executives and senior leaders who get to be appointed and elevated to positions of authority on the basis of technical competences whilst lacking essential grooming on basic good manners and customs of conduct that must come from the home training process.

Archibald Marwizi

#23. The characters and events depicted in the damn bible are fictitious. Any similarity to actual persons, living or dead, is purely coincidental.

James Madison