Quotes about per
perspective age helping
Age helps one to acquire some of the perspectives necessary to create harmony among apparent contradictions. Roberto Assagioli
perseverance goal doe
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
perfection genius originality
The principal mark of genius is not perfection, but originality. Robert Schumann
perspective
I was young - I was 20 years old. Now I have the gift of perspective and I feel pretty good about it. Robert Plant
perseverance three microsoft
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. Satya Nadella
perfect childhood would-be
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. Sasha Grey
perfect quality painting
Quality and perfection are achieved with time. You do not create a perfect painting or a perfect poem by hurrying. Time is always coming. Satish Kumar
perfect want easy
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. Sarah MacLean
perfect lucky partners
I'm lucky in having found the perfect partner to spend my life with Sara Paretsky
perfect yoke christ
Take Christ in with you under your yoke, and let patience have her perfect work. Samuel Rutherford
perseverance too-much vigor
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
personal-knowledge forever records
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
perseverance writing expression
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. Samuel Johnson
persons
I am a person who is not mated. Sarah Paulson
perception mind essentials
Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Wallace Stevens
perception essentials conception
Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential. Wallace Stevens
persistence quality needs
At the beginning of a novel, a writer needs confidence, but after that what's required is persistence. These traits sound similar. They aren't. Confidence is what politicians, seducers and currency speculators have, but persistence is a quality found in termites. It's the blind drive to keep on working that persists after confidence breaks down. Walter Kirn
perception world imagine
We are told about the world before we see it. We imagine most things before we experience them. And those preconceptions, unless education has made us acutely aware, govern deeply the whole process of perception. Walter Lippmann
perfect enemy excellence
Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.) Voltaire
perfection grace sublime
The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault. Voltaire
perfection perfect enemy
Perfect is the enemy of good. Voltaire
perfect originality imitation
A good imitation is the most perfect originality Voltaire
perception madness reason
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them. Voltaire
perseverance determination way
A determination to succeed is the only way to succeed that I know anything about. William Feather
perfection people excellence
If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do. William Pollard
perspective live-for-others trouble
They who will live for others shall have great troubles, but they shall seem to them small. Those who will live for themselves shall have small troubles, but they shall seem to them great. William Ralph Inge
perfection done theater
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done William Hurt
persevere christianity missions
I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. William Carey
personality style hot
Style, personality - deliberately adopted and therefore a mask - is the only escape from the hot-faced bargainers and money-changers. William Butler Yeats
personality opponents might
I am fully and entirely concentrated on the board. I never even consider my opponent's personality. So far as I am concerned, my opponent might as well be an abstraction or an automaton. Wilhelm Steinitz
perfect secret today
My today is what I will to make it. I will to make it perfect... Walter Russell
perseverance men littles
Dignity, in private men and in governments, has been little else than a stately and stiff perseverance in oppression; and spirit, as it is called, little else than the foam of hard-mouthed insolence. Walter Savage Landor
perfect cooking brain
A good cook is the peculiar gift of the gods. He must be a perfect creature from the brain to the palate, from the palate to the finger's end. Walter Savage Landor