Famous Quotes & Sayings

Without deep personal transformation, collective transformation is not possible.

Chris Gardner

(The movie) is the story of my life, but it's not about me. It's about anybody who ever dreamed big and had someone tell them, 'No, you can't do it.' You can.

Gilbert Gottfried

Any misfortune that happens to another person is funny. If it happens to someone else and not me, it's very funny.

George Washington

A lottery is the perfect tax...laid only upon the willing.

George Washington

Perseverance and spirit have done wonders in all ages.

George Washington

And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining.

George Orwell

The Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect.

George Muller

Here is the great secret of success. Work with all your might; but trust not in the least in your work. Pray with all your might for the blessing of God; but work, at the same time, with all diligence, with all patience, with all perseverance. Pray then, and work. Work and pray. And still again pray, and then work. And so on all the days of your life. The result will surely be, abundant blessing. Whether you see much fruit or little fruit, such kind of service will be blessed...

George Meredith

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

G. M. Trevelyan

Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To love another person is to see them as God intended them to be.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.

Jet Li

You need to drop down. Nobody is perfect, nobody is superhero.

Jessie J

The only thing I want to be defined by is my music and personality.

Jessie J

Being perfect is boring. It's the imperfections that make us perfect.

Jewel

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Jerry Springer

I create this persona for the show. And that's what it is. I'm an act.

Jerome Bruner

In the perception of the incongruous stimuli, the recognition process is temporarily thwarted and exhibits characteristics which are generally not observable in the recognition of more conventional stimuli.

Jen Lancaster

The best thing about being 45 is not taking myself so seriously. Do I miss the package I came in at 25? I do. Gravity is no one's friend. Yet the perspective I've gained is so worth the wear and tear. What would have mortified me at 25 is now simply fodder for a funny, relatable story. Also? I was a waitress at 25, and now I'm an author. Forty-five is definitely better.

Jena Malone

It's very easy to make certain decisions that affect your life that you have no perspective on.

George Eliot

Perfect love has a breath of poetry which can exalt the relations of the least-instructed human beings.

George Eliot

I'm proof against that word failure. I've seen behind it. The only failure a man ought to fear is failure of cleaving to the purpose he sees to be best.

Success in any endeavor does not happen by accident. Rather, it’s the result of deliberate decisions, conscious effort, and immense persistence...all directed at specific goals.

Gary Numan

We have heard projects with some of the writers, who we've been in business with for a long time at the studio, that we've heard as a studio - often, pitches that are still in their formation stage where we or the writers have wanted our input on developing them. We've probably heard more pitches with the network hat on. Certainly all of the outside pitches are that way, and many of the pitches that have been in great shape coming out of the studio we've heard from a network perspective.

Christopher Atkins

I became a very angry person and it was all due to alcoholism.

Christian Wiman

It's just that different emotions and perceptions demand different frequencies and intensities.

Christian Slater

The Kennedys have always represented a certain royal quality, Camelot, and they represent a great deal of integrity and strength and perseverance; faith in the future of America and where we could go. What a tragedy it was that the carpet was pulled out from under our feet.

Pure motives do not insure perfect results.

We make way for the man who boldly pushes past us.

Chrissie Fit

I never thought I'd get [a 'Pitch Perfect 2'] audition because the film was just so massive.

Chrissy Teigen

I'm much nicer in person than on Twitter.

Chris Van Allsburg

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

Chris Tucker

I've got a big closet of scripts, and a big stack of scripts on the side of my desk, because you get a whole bunch. Nothing's going to be perfect, and I realize that; but I am a perfectionist, so you go through a lot of stuff.