Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucian Freud

Were it not for this [dissatisfaction], the perfect painting might be painted, on the completion of which the painter could retire. It is this great insufficiency that drives him on. The process of creation becomes necessary to the painter perhaps more than it is in the picture. The process is in fact habit-forming.

Louis Auchincloss

Your literary style reflects your personality.

Louis Auchincloss

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Louis D. Brandeis

Most of the things worth doing in the world had been declared impossible before they were done.

Lori Foster

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Lord Byron

In commitment, we dash the hopes of a thousand potential selves.

M. John Harrison

Perception of a state is not the state.

M. John Harrison

Dreamworlds can maintain themselves only as glimpses. Once the writer transports the reader across the threshold, nothing that was promised can be delivered. What was ominous becomes ordinary; what was bizarre, quotidian. Unless you simply keep upping the ante, piling on the bullshit, the only way to revive things is to switch perspectives as quickly as you can.

Loren Eiseley

We are one of many appearances of the thing called Life; we are not its perfect image, for it has no perfect image except Life, and life is multitudinous and emergent in the stream of time.

Lord Chesterfield

Persist and persevere, and you will find most things that are attainable, possible.

Lord Chesterfield

If you would convince others, seem open to conviction yourself.

Lord Chesterfield

True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself.

Malcolm Forbes

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.

Magic Johnson

Even when I went to the playground, I never picked the best players. I picked guys with less talent, but who were willing to work hard and had the desire to be great.

Major Taylor

I pray they will carry on in spite of that dreadful monster prejudice, and with patience, courage, fortitude and perseverance achieve success for themselves.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is a technique to integrate one's personality, to be able to live and enjoy full life of all glories - worldly and divine.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

The secret of success is conviction and persistence.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.

Mahatma Gandhi

The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection.

Mahatma Gandhi

Full effort is full victory.

Mahatma Gandhi

Whatever you do may seem insignificant to you, but it is most important that you do it.

Gavin Rossdale

For the sound we produce, everybody is equally important. Each of us has a very different personality and that is what keeps Bush alive.

Gail Carriger

The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle.

Gail Carriger

And I find perfect beauty excessively boring, don't you?

Freda Adler

Major social movements eventually fade into the landscape not because they have diminished but because they have become a permanent part of our perceptions and experience.

Frank Luntz

When you're selling a product or service, you don't have - it doesn't have to be absolutely perfect, although I've provided language that is. When you're a politician, one wrong word changes the entire - changes the meaning of something.

Napoleon Bonaparte

All the great captains have performed vast achievements by conforming with the rules of art--by adjusting efforts to obstacles.

Og Mandino

My days of whining and complaining about others have come to an end. Nothing is easier than fault finding. All it will do is discolor my personality so that none will want to associate with me. That was my old life. No more.

Norman O. Brown

I am what is mine. Personality is the original personal property.

Oscar de la Renta

The most important thing? Perfect lighting at all times.

Orson Welles

Movie directing is a perfect refuge for the mediocre.

Orson Welles

I have an unfortunate personality.