Quotes about per
perfectionist staff something-better
I'm not the perfectionist anymore. It's my staff. They're the ones always insisting on doing something better and better. Walt Disney
perfect wish example
DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody. Virginie LeDoyen
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.
perfection perfect enemy
Perfect is the enemy of good.
perfect originality imitation
A good imitation is the most perfect originality
perception madness reason
What is madness? To have erroneous perceptions and to reason correctly from them.
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.
personality messy
There are parts of his life and personality that are extremely messy, and that's the truth Walter Isaacson
perseverance creativity character
But the person who scored well on an SAT will not necessarily be the best doctor or the best lawyer or the best businessman. These tests do not measure character, leadership, creativity, perseverance. William Julius Wilson
personality looks legs
I like carrots that have got a bit of personality and have three or four legs! They may look weird but they taste fantastic. William Katt
perfection
Perfection is not very communicative Yo-Yo Ma
perfection trying way
The way to achieve happiness is to try for perfection that is impossible to achieve, and spend the rest of your life trying to achieve it. Winston Churchill
perfectionism paralysis spells
Perfectionism spells paralysis.
perseverance persevere conquer
Sure I am of this, that you have only to endure to conquer.
perfection authenticity antithesis
Perfection is the antithesis of authenticity. Willie Garson
perfect attractive sexually
Too perfect to be sexually attractive. William S. Burroughs
perfect remember printer
The idea was that we would decide the order when we looked at the proofs. I remember Brion Gysin saying "Well, why change it? It's perfect the way it is, the way it came from the printer." Made one major change, that is, the first chapter that came from the printers, which would be the beginning, we moved to the end. The first chapter became the last chapter. There's no actual cutups in Naked Lunch.
perfection thankfulness way
If anyone would tell you the shortest, surest way to all happiness and all perfection, he must tell you to make a rule to yourself to thank and praise God for everything that happens to you. William Law
perfect brain world
But he could not taste, he could not feel. In the teashop among the tables and the chattering waiters the appalling fear came over him- he could not feel. He could reason; he could read, Dante for example, quite easily…he could add up his bill; his brain was perfect; it must be the fault of the world then- that he could not feel. Virginia Woolf
perseverance failure adversity
Paralyze resistance with persistence. Woody Hayes
perfect preparation poor
Perfect preparation prevents piss-poor performance.