Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Kazinsky

I was such a fan of 'True Blood;' I knew the essence of it.

Talulah Riley

'St. Trinian's' is probably taking it to the extreme, but in essence it's saying, 'If you be yourself, you can do whatever you want,' and it's sort of a fun message.

Charles Peguy

It is the essence of genius to make use of the simplest ideas.

Dennis Prager

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of chastity is not the suppression of lust, but the total orientation of one's life towards a goal. Without such a goal, chastity is bound to become ridiculous. Chastity is the sine qua non of lucidity and concentration.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The essence of grace, we suppose, is that the account has been paid in advance; and, because it has been paid, everything can be had for nothing.

Ed Parker

Having an open mind does not necessarily lead to perfection. It is your ability to observe, analyze, discern, and understand the true essence that basic principles contain that point the way to perfection.

Elizabeth Bowen

Have not all poetic truths been already stated? The essence of a poetic truth is that no statement of it can be final.

Deepak Chopra

The essence of wisdom is to see that there is always a solution once you realize that the mind, which seems to create so much suffering, has infinite potential to create fulfillment instead.

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Ed Parker

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Albert Schweitzer

Only when an ideal of peace is born in the minds of the peoples will the institutions set up to maintain this peace effectively fulfill the function expected of them.

Richie Benaud

Let's just say that at 74 I'm in the mindset that, having been free-to-air, I want to stay free-to-air.

William Wordsworth

Minds that have nothing to conferFind little to perceive.

Daina Parent

Mind over matter, baby. This is what we've trained for all year. This is ours.

Ron Oden

None of this has anything to do with me running. So, what's the real issue? What is the issue? I can't get into the minds of people.

Proverb Proverbs

Money spent on the mind is never spent in vain.

Nikolai Gogol

Never mind beauty! Concentrate on the things that matter.

Theophilus London

When you're a kid, you're only exposed to what's going on in your mind. The mind is like a bigger-than-outer-space type of thing.

Douglas Booth

I get bored quite easily, so I like to keep my mind entertained by challenging myself.