Famous Quotes & Sayings

Robert Schumann

It is the curse of talent that, although it labors with greater steadiness and perseverance than genius, it does not reach its goal, while genius already on the summit of the ideal, gazes laughingly about.

Robert Schumann

The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality.

Robert Plant

I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it.

Satya Nadella

Many companies aspire to change the world. But very few have all the elements required: talent, resources and perseverance. Microsoft has proven that it has all three in abundance.

Sasha Grey

I always had all of these childhood fantasies about wanting to invent things, like a spaceship or a time machine. And everyone's imagined what it would be like to go back in time and change things, to see what would happen if you had a different life. 'Back to the Future' fulfills all of those daydreams. It's the perfect movie.

Satish Kumar

Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming.

Sarah MacLean

I had a perfect life in my reach once, and it was a crashing bore. Perfect is too clean, too easy. I don't want perfect any more than I want to be perfect. I want imperfect.

Sara Paretsky

I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with

Samuel Rutherford

Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work.

Samuel Johnson

Too much vigor in the beginning of an undertaking often intercepts and prevents the steadiness and perseverance always necessary in the conduct of a complicated scheme.

Samuel Johnson

History can be formed from permanent monuments and records; but lives can only be written from personal knowledge, which is growing every day less, and in a short time is lost forever.

Samuel Johnson

To write is, indeed, no unpleasing employment, when one sentiment readily produces another, and both ideas and expressions present themselves at the first summons; but such happiness, the greatest genius does not always obtain; and common writers know it only to such a degree, as to credit its possibility. Composition is, for the most part, an effort of slow diligence and steady perseverance, to which the mind is dragged by necessity or resolution, and from which the attention is every moment starting to more delightful amusements.

Sarah Paulson

I am a person who is not mated.

Robert Greene

Our levels of desire, patience, persistence, and confidence end up playing a much larger role in success than sheer reasoning powers. Feel motivated and energized, we can overcome almost anything. Feeling bored and restless, our minds shut off and we become increasingly passive.

Robert Greene

The key to success in any kind of start up is your level of persistence. It's not so much your intellect. The Zuckerburg's, Pages and Brins, that succeed have such a level of belief in what they are doing that they will put up with the kind of crap that most people won't put up with, they are incredibly persistent and resilient.

Robert Anton Wilson

Most of our ancestors were not perfect ladies and gentlemen. The majority of them weren't even mammals.

Rob Lowe

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.

Rob Lowe

You show me someone who's led a perfect life and I'll show you a dullard.

Richard Lugar

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Richard M. Nixon

Don't try to take on a new personality; it doesn't work.

Richard M. Nixon

The Jews are just a very aggressive and abrasive and obnoxious personality.

Ric Flair

I thought Chris Benoit was worthy of being a Horseman. I thought Dean Melinko was. Obviously I thought Steven Michael was, though obviously he was inexperienced, I thought he was a perfect fit as a horseman. I did not like the Paul Roma deal. I did not like Sid Vicious or about two or three guys that they put in there, I just couldn’t see it. I couldn’t stomach it, but I had to.

Rich Mullins

It's all that pretending to be perfect that breeds inauthenticity in the church.

Robert Delaunay

The auditory perception is not sufficient for our knowledge of the world; it does not have vastness.

Robert De Niro

I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

Robert C. Solomon

Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition

Ritchie Blackmore

When something is not good, it's bad. Period

Richard Pryor

I became a performer because it was what I enjoyed doing.

Richard Rohr

Salvation is not a divine transaction that takes place because you are morally perfect, but much more is an organic unfolding, a becoming who you already are, an inborn sympathy with and capacity for the very One who created you.

Richard Le Gallienne

We also maintain - again with perfect truth - that mystery is more than half of beauty, the element of strangeness that stirs the senses through the imagination.

Richard Le Gallienne

Stay the course, light a star, Change the world where'er you are.

Tucker Max

I take a lull from my CamelBak and choke at its potency. It tastes like bad decisions. It's perfect.

Tucker Max

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.