Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The person you are most afraid to contradict is yourself.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Don't aim to be perfect! Aim to be antifragile

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

I support equality. Everyone should feel free to live out the parts of their personality that correspond to the classic male or female image.

Mireille Enos

I'm really lucky to be married to a perfect person.

Miranda Lambert

Be confident and comfortable with yourself. If you know us, we are definitely not shy, and never try to be anything we are not. No matter what anyone tells you, you are perfect, just the way you are.

Miranda Kerr

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

Miranda July

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

Mike Murdock

The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

John Williams

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

John Wooden

When I am through learning, I am through.

John Wooden

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

John Wooden

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

Richard Bach

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly.

Sathya Baba

All this I do, not for personal gain, but only because I have come for your sake.

All works we will be performing are from the romantic period of the 19th century. They are very romantic, with beautiful, sweeping melodies.

Rob Morrow

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

Robert Rodriguez

This is one of those periods of time where you can have two different styles at an intersection. This year could be a crossroads.

This is already your most personal item. The only thing you wear more often on you is underwear. For some people, even that's optional.

Eric Kandel

Truth has many dimensions, and the way you arrive at truth in complex situations is through many perspectives.

Eric Kripke

Mythologies become exhausting burdens, from a writer's perspective.

Mortimer Adler

Ultimately, we wish the joy of perfect union with the person we love.

Paulo Freire

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those who read and study; as subjects of the action, they must seek to employ appropriate instruments in order to carry out the task. For this very reason, reading and studying form a challenging task, one requiring patience and perseverance.

Philip Sidney

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Philip James Bailey

None but God can fill the perfect whole.

Pharrell Williams

I'm a fan of music, first and foremost. So I do things from the perspective of a fan.

Peter Drucker

Yet there is nothing more dangerous than to be premature in exploiting a change in perception.

Peter Drucker

There is no perfect strategic decision. One always has to pay a price. One always has to balance conflicting objectives, conflicting opinions, and conflicting priorities. The best strategic decision is only an approximation - and a risk.

Paulo Coelho

Perseverance brings good luck.

Paulo Coelho

Not even your love could withhold you from fulfilling your own personal legend.