Famous Quotes & Sayings

Georges Braque

I considered that the painter's personality should be kept out of things, and therefore pictures should be anonymous. It was I who decided that pictures should not be signed, and for a time Picasso did the same.

Georges Braque

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

George Zimmerman

Leisure, the highest happiness on earth, is seldom enjoyed with perfect satisfaction, except in solitude.

Georges Bataille

The truth is paradoxical to the extent of being exactly contrary to the usual perception.

George Whitefield

Dare, dare, my dear brethren in Christ, to follow the Captain of your salvation, who was made perfect through sufferings

George Will

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

George Sand

The cigar is the perfect complement to an elegant lifestyle.

George S. Patton

By perseverance, study, and eternal desire, any man can become great.

George S. Patton

There is only one sort of discipline, perfect discipline.

George S. Patton

In case of doubt, push on just a little further and then keep on pushing.

Jean-Claude Juncker

The European family may well be anything but perfect.

Jean Philippe Rameau

Therefore we well observe that the title of perfect cadence is attached only to a dominant that progresses to the main tone, because this dominant, which is naturally contained within the harmony of the main tone, seems, when it progresses to it, to return as if to its source.

Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jerry Seinfeld

The truth is, I had always wanted to be a comedian, but I really didn't have that kind of personality, and it's a terrifying thing to say.

Jeremy Abbott

My personal story has always been about perseverance and always getting up when I fall. Maybe I'm not Olympic champion, but I can teach the world about that.

Jeffrey Gitomer

In sales, it's not what you say; it's how they perceive what you say.

Jeff Kinney

The best person I know is Myself.

Jill Flint

You're not going to do something for a certain period of your life and be affected by it, and then stop and go work in a grocery store. You understand certain things and your personality changes.

Jill Clayburgh

I want to be an actress, not a personality.

Jesse Metcalfe

There's no perfect relationship. All relationships are work. If you put in the work, you'll reap the rewards.

Jesse Jackson

What we have to be judged by is the work we try to do. It's public service, not perfect service.

Jennifer Lopez

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Jean Houston

Change the story and you change perception; change perception and you change the world.

James C. Collins

It took Einstein ten years of groping through the fog to get the theory of special relativity, and he was a bright guy.

James C. Collins

You must maintain unwavering faith that you can and will prevail in the end, regardless of the difficulties, AND at the same time, have the discipline to confront the most brutal facts of your current reality, whatever they might be.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Jackie Stewart

Nobody's perfect, but all of us can be better than we are.

Jackie Jackson

One thing of the many things that I know about Jesse Jackson, he is persistent.

Jackie Joyner-Kersee

Don't follow in any footprints, make your own prints. Because, you are the future of tomorrow.

Jack Vance

Of all questions, why? is the least pertinent. It begs the question; it assumes the larger part of its own response; to wit, that a sensible response exists.

Christopher Lasch

Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.

Christopher Lasch

Because politics rests on an irreducible measure of coercion, it can never become a perfect realm of perfect love and justice.

Christopher Hitchens

It’s considered perfectly normal in this society to approach dying people who you don’t know but who are unbelievers and say, ‘Now are you gonna change your mind?’ That is considered almost a polite question.