Famous Quotes & Sayings

Steve Carell

You know, what's funny to one person is not at all to someone else.

Stephen Hawking

One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect. Perfection simply doesn't exist.....Without imperfection, neither you nor I would exist

Stephen Hawking

The universe doesn't allow perfection.

Stephen King

Perfect paranoia is perfect awareness.

Stellan Skarsgard

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.

Stendhal

I call 'crystallization' that action of the mind that discovers fresh perfections in its beloved at every turn of events.

Stanislav Grof

This sense of perfection has a built-in contradiction, one that Ram Dass once captured very succinctly by a statement he had heard from his Himalayan guru: "The world is absolutely perfect, including your own dissatisfaction with it, and everything you are trying to do to change it.

Sigmund Freud

Perception is less of a recording system and more of a protection system against external stimuli.

Shepard Smith

That is all the perspective you need!

Shelley Long

I'm not perfect, but I'd like to be perfect. I'm working on it.

Shawn Johnson

Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough.

Shaun White

Getting into music has changed my personality and way of doing things. I'm far more open now.

Shaun White

Meeting actors and TV personalities is one thing, but I just feel like meeting musicians is the coolest.

Serj Tankian

Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.

Scott Wolf

I see myself as the same person as I was, as I am now.

Scott Westerfeld

What happens when perfection isn't good enough?

Steven Pressfield

We fear discovering that we are more than we think we are. More than our parents/children/teachers think we are. We fear that we actually possess the talent that our still, small voice tells us. That we actually have the guts, the perseverance, the capacity. We fear that we truly can steer our ship, plant our flag, reach our Promised Land. We fear this because, if it’s true, then we become estranged from all we know. We pass through a membrane. We become monsters and monstrous.

Steven Pinker

Personality and socialization aren't the same thing.

Steven Pinker

Academics lack perspective. In a debate on whether the world is round, they would argue, 'No,' because it's an oblate spheroid. They suffer from 'the curse of knowledge': the inability to imagine what it's like not to know something that they know.

Steven Pinker

We will never have a perfect world, but it's not romantic or naive to work toward a better one.

Sue Grafton

When all else fails, cleaning house is the perfect antidote to most of life's ills.

Sue Monk Kidd

The translucence that comes when life hardens into a bead of such cruel perfection you see it with the purest clarity. Everything suddenly there--life as it truly is, enormous, appalling, devastating. You see the great sinkholes it makes in people and the harrowing lengths to which love will go to fill them.

Sue Monk Kidd

There is nothing perfect...only life.

Robert Browning

Faultless to a fault.

Rigoberta Menchu

We can only love a person who eats what we eat.

Ricky Schroder

I've found joy, peace and perspective. Those are very good things to have.

Richard Simmons

I don't talk about my personal life, and I don't talk about death.

Richard Armour

Adolescence isn't a period; it's a coma.

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

The advanced levels which the democratic world has attained at the end of lengthy processes may have created the perception in the region that democracy is a distant concept; this perception can be addressed

Recep Tayyip Erdogan

Similarly, it is argued that the culture of Islam is incompatible with democracy. Basically, this conventional perspective of the Middle East thus contends that democracy in that region is neither possible nor even desirable

Samora Machel

Personalities and fame pass; the revolution must remain.

Samuel Alexander

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

Samuel Alexander

The thing of which the act of perception is the perception is experienced as something not mental.