Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Chadwick

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Charles Lyell

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Charles Lindbergh

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Beyonce Knowles

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

Charles Caleb Colton

There were moments of despondency when Shakespeare thought himself no poet, and Raphael no painter; when the greatest wits have doubted the excellence of their happiest efforts.

Charles Dickens

Of little worth as life is when we misuse it, it is worth that effort. It would cost nothing to lay down if it were not.

Charles Spurgeon

The repetition of small efforts will accomplish more than the occasional use of great talents.

Alan Bishop

There hasn't been a true breakdown or effort to break Thai music into genres. They're not into dicing and slicing everything up.

Alan Bennett

All the effort went into getting there and then I had nothing left. I thought I'd got somewhere, then I found I had to go on.

Al Ries

If you want to build a brand, you must focus your branding efforts on owning a word in the prospect's mind. A word that nobody else owns.

Akio Morita

If we do our best and make efforts, a peaceful and great future will become ours without fail. Whether we succeed or not depends on the strength of our resolve and the amount of our endeavor.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

In an effort to get the work of the Lord done we often lose contact with the Lord of work.

Childe Hassam

These small shows were decidedly a success. The exhibitions were not too large to be seen easily. It was not an effort, as larger collections of pictures usually are.

Carl Friedrich Gauss

The Infinite is only a manner of speaking.

George William Russell

We have the universe to roam in in imagination. It is our virtue to be infinitely varied. The worst tyranny is uniformity.

Blaise Pascal

The God of the infinite is the God of the infinitesimal.

Tom Stoppard

The possibilities are infinite with new writing; every time you open a new script, there's no limit to what it might contain.

Arthur Cayley

Euclid avoids it [the treatment of the infinite]; in modern mathematics it is systematically introduced, for only then is generality obtained.

David Bowie

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

Craig Brown

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Hippolyte Taine

I have studied many philosophers and many cats. The wisdom of cats is infinitely superior.

Gianni Agnelli

All the technology of our production was still pre-War. They were sort of '38, '39 and the War had been stable and so we were infinitely behind whatever had been going on in the United States for instance.