Quotes about per
perseverance done sensitive
No worthy enterprise can be done by us without continual plodding and wearisomeness to our faint and sensitive abilities. John Milton
persistence want-something trying
Persistence is incredibly important. Persistence proves to the person you're trying to reach that you're passionate about something, that you really want something. Norah O'Donnell
perfect different kind
I tried to make the punchline as close to the setup as I could. And I thought that was the perfect thing. If I could make the setup and the punchline identical to each other, I would create a different kind of joke. Norm MacDonald
perfect lines would-be
I always told everybody the perfect joke would be where the setup and punch line were identical.
perfect bed climate
Bed is the perfect climate. Noel Coward
perfection sound imperfect
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Noel Gallagher
perspective fiction science-fiction
Science fiction is the only genre that enables African writers to envision a future from our African perspective. Nnedi Okorafor
perfect spirituality trust-in-god
Spirituality isn't about being finished and perfect; spirituality is about trusting God in our unfinishedness. Mike Yaconelli
perspective people personality
People tell me I'm a comedian, but I don't approach acting from that perspective. I do know that everything in life has to do with your timing and perception. You have to be comfortable with the rhythm that you're in. You can't just jump into a fast rhythm if yours is slow. You might have to pick up the pace but in your own particular way. It has to do with personality, too. Mike Tyson
personality world intention
My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.
perseverance evil mind
When we see ourselves in a situation which must be endured and gone through, it is best to make up our minds to it, meet it with firmness, and accommodate everything to it in the best way practicable. This lessens the evil; while fretting and fuming only serves to increase your own torments. Thomas Jefferson
perfect effort done
The picture that looks as if it were done without an effort may have been a perfect battlefield in its making. Robert Henri
perseverance art pain
There are people who buy pictures because they were difficult to do, and are done. Such pictures are often only a record of pain and dull perseverance. Great works of art should look as though they were made in joy. Real joy is a tremendous activity, dull drudgery is nothing to it.
perseverance helping-others volunteer
When the story of these times gets written, we want it to say that we did all we could, and it was more than anyone could have imagined. Edward de Bono
perception emotion logic
Logic will never change emotion or perception.
perfect car may
Removing the faults in a stage-coach may produce a perfect stage-coach, but it is unlikely to produce the first motor car.
personality captains ships
All we have to do is preserve our personality, to live our own life, be captain of our own ship, and all will be well. Edward Bach
personality individuality wonderful
Every single person has a life to live, a work to do, a glorious personality, a wonderful individuality.
perfect may ends
Life's not perfect. Some loose ends may never get trimmed up and tidied. Hoda Kotb
perfect way gunshots
You never know what's hit you. A gunshot is the perfect way. John F. Kennedy
perseverance freedom character
The basis of self-government and freedom requires the development of character and self-restraint and perseverance and the long view. And these are qualities which require many years of training and education.
perfect wish dresses
Novelists get to direct the perfect films. We get to cast every part. We dress the set exactly as we wish. Jonathan Lethem
perfection way illusion
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way.
percentages
There's never any percentage in being ahead of your time.
personality trying degrees
I've always been passionately in love with movies, to such a degree that even as a young person of about nineteen or twenty I thought maybe I would try to become a film director. The reason I didn't do it was because I felt I didn't have the right personality. At that time in my life, I was mortally shy.
perfection training lines
A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection." Jonathan Horton
perfect want remember
If you want to have friends, you have to remember that nobody's perfect. Jonathan Franzen
personality sides tunes
The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's. Jonathan Coe
perfect mind void
That there should absolutely be nothing at all is utterly impossible. The mind, let it stretch its conceptions ever so far, can never so much as bring itself to conceive of a state of perfect nothing. Jonathan Edwards
perseverance lying fire-burning
I've had a million setbacks along the way--from kiln fires burning down buildings to shipping disasters--that should have put me out of business, or at least left me lying in the fetal position on my bed for a few days. Luckily, though, I've never for one second thought that I had any other option than to just keep going. Jonathan Adler
perfect thank-god cover-ups
When I was 14, I almost had a big green leprechaun tattooed on my forearm. Thank God I didnt - it would have been a nightmare to cover up as an actor. I went with a group of mates and, being Irish, thought a leprechaun would be perfect. Jonas Armstrong
perfect needs film
We need less perfect but more free films. Jonas Mekas
perfect saying-no ifs
If we say that anyone who 'moralizes' must be perfect morally then we are in effect saying no one can moralize. Jonah Goldberg