If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

The most excellent of modern poets, ... whom I reverence next to Virgil.

His Biographer remarked: Of course, ‘Sir, you believe in excellence.' JRD Tata) retorted sharply, 'Not excellence. Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

Putting Sachin Tendulkar's latest feat in a strictly cricketing context would not be fair to the sportsman. His achievements in the world of cricket need to be seen on a par with efforts in any other field - science, art, literature, etc - to push the frontiers of human excellence.

His Biographer remarked: Of course, ‘Sir, you believe in excellence.' JRD Tata) retorted sharply, 'Not excellence. Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.

There is no real excellence in all this world which can be separated from right living.

If you want excellence, you must aim at perfection. It has its drawbacks but being finicky is essential.

His Biographer remarked: Of course, ‘Sir, you believe in excellence.' JRD Tata) retorted sharply, 'Not excellence. Perfection. You aim for perfection, you will attain excellence. If you aim for excellence, you will go lower.

A master and way out of the league that the rest of us play in.