Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tina Weymouth

It's hard to be perfect, It really is. I keep learning things after I've already bungled it.

Tim Finn

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Tim Ferriss

Perfection is an impossible destination

Tim Ferriss

The universe doesn't conspire against you, but it doesn't go out of its way to line up the pins either. Conditions are never perfect.

Tim Ferriss

The decent method you follow is better than the perfect method you quit.

Tibor Kalman

Perspective is a moment in time that cannot be fully appreciated until that moment has passed.

Samuel Adams

Let us contemplate our forefathers, and posterity, and resolve to maintain the rights bequeathed to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. The necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude and perseverance. Let us remember that "if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom," it is a very serious consideration ... that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event.

Sam Houston

Let me tell you what is coming. After the sacrifice of countless millions of treasure and hundreds of thousands of lives you may win Southern independence, but I doubt it. The North is determined to preserve this Union. They are not a fiery, impulsive people as you are, for they live in colder climates. But when they begin to move in a given direction, they move with the steady momentum and perseverance of a mighty avalanche.

Saint Patrick

I pray to God to give me perseverance and to deign that I be a faithful witness to Him to the end of my life for my God.

S. J. Perelman

The fact is that all of us have only one personality, and we wring it out like a dishtowel. You are what you are.

S. E. Hinton

the person in this picture is really me.

Russell M. Nelson

For their salvation is necessary and essential to our salvation, … they without us cannot be made perfect—neither can we without our dead be made perfect.

Russell M. Nelson

Revelation need not all come at once. It may be incremental. 'Saith the Lord God: I will give unto the children of men line upon line, precept upon precept, here a little and there a little; and blessed are those who hearken unto my precepts, and lend an ear unto my counsel, for they shall learn wisdom; for unto him that receiveth I will give more' (2 Nephi 28:30). Patience and perseverance are part of our eternal progression.

Romano Prodi

It is becoming more widely acknowledged that it is better to have a good constitution than not having a perfect one.

Ron Paul

I'm an imperfect messenger, but the message is perfect.

Saadi

A little and a little, collected together, becomes a great deal; the heap in the barn consists of single grains, and drop and drop make the inundation.

Ron Santo

I'm the perfect candidate to be affected by SARS. I'm highly susceptible to infections.

Roland Joffe

Good directing is about getting the performance to be just what's right for the movie.

Susan Sarandon

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

Susan Cain

Schwartz's research suggests something important: we can stretch our personalities, but only up to a point. Our inborn temperaments influence us, regardless of the lives we lead. A sizeable part of who we are is ordained by our genes, by our brains, by our nervous systems. And yet the elasticity that Schwartz found in some of the high-reactive teens also suggests the converse: we have free will and can use it to shape our personalities.

Susan Cain

I actually find extroversion to be a really appealing personality style.

Susan Cain

Extroversion is an enormously appealing personality style, but we've turned it into an oppressive standard to which most of us feel we must conform.

Suge Knight

No person ever gave me nothing but God.

Thomas a Kempis

In the Cross is salvation; in the Cross is life; in the Cross is protection against our enemies; in the Cross is infusion of heavenly sweetness; in the Cross is strength of mind; in the Cross is joy of spirit; in the Cross is excellence of virtue; in the Cross is perfection of holiness. There is no salvation of soul, nor hope of eternal life, save in the Cross.

Thomas A. Edison

I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process.

Thomas A. Edison

I have been at work for some time building an apparatus to see if it is possible for personalities which have left this earth to communicate with us.

Thomas A. Edison

Our greatest weakness lies in giving up.

Thomas A. Edison

Every wrong attempt discarded is another step forward

Simon Conway Morris

On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

Sheryl Sandberg

Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Sheryl Sandberg

Done is better than perfect.

Sheryl Sandberg

Presenting leadership as a list of carefully defined qualities (like strategic, analytical, and performance-ori ented) no longer holds. Instead, true leadership stems from individuality that is honestly and sometimes imperfectly expressed.... Leaders should strive for authenticity over perfection.

Natalie Goldberg

Clarity and perseverance are difficult in American society because the basis of capitalism is greed and dissatisfaction.