The document discusses the concept of excellence and how to achieve it. It states that the secret to finding joy in work is excellence, which is attained through training and habituation. While perfection is unattainable, pursuing excellence leads to improved performance. Excellence means doing even common tasks in an uncommon, exceptional way. The path to excellence requires continual self-improvement and aiming higher than what others expect or deem practical.

2. The secret of joy in
work is contained in
one word -excellence.
To know how to do
something well is to
enjoy it.

3. Excellence is an art
won by training
and habituation.
We do not act
rightly because we
have virtue or
excellence, but we
rather have those
because we have
acted rightly.

4. Perfection
is not
attainable,
but if we
chase
perfection
we can
catch
excellence.

5. Excellence is
to do a
common
thing in an
uncommon
way.

6. Shoot for the moon.
Even if you miss it you will land among the stars.

7. Excellence
is not a
skill.
It is an
attitude.

8. Perfection has to do with the end
product,
but excellence has to do with the
process.

9. The road to excellence is
always under construction.

10. Excellence is the
result of caring
more than others
think is wise,
Risking more
than others think
is safe,
Dreaming more
than others think
is practical,
and expecting
more than others
think is possible.

11. Focus on
making
yourself
better,
not on
thinking
that you
are
better.

12. Become all that you are
capable of becoming.

13. It is a
wretched
taste to be
gratified
with
mediocrity
when the
excellent
creation
lies before
us.

14. Every job is a
self-portrait
of the person
who did it.
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