Quotes about per
periods
I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period. Peter Boyle
perfectionist studios
'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot. Peter Biskind
perfect monkeys states
I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state. Penelope Cruz
perseverance attitude stress
We can put our whole heart into whatever we do; but if we freeze our attitude into for or against, we're setting ourselves up for stress. Instead, we could just go forward with curiosity, wondering where this experiment will lead. This kind of open-ended inquisitiveness captures the spirit of enthusiasm, or heroic perseverance. Pema Chodron
perspective emotion obstacles
The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us. Pema Chodron
perspective patient painful
Whatever happens in your life, joyful or painful, do not be swept away by reactivity. Be patient with yourself and don't lose your sense of perspective. Pema Chodron
perfect people bird
This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony. Phil Donahue
perseverance art nine
I always say perseverance is nine-tenths of any art — not that it's much help to be nine-tenths an artist, of course. Peter S. Beagle
personal-mastery discipline matter
The discipline of personal mastery...starts with clarifying the things that really matter to us (and) living our lives in the service of our highest aspirations. Peter Senge
perseverance creative allies
Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally. Peter Senge
perfect return marmalade
It distresses us to return work which is not perfect. Peter O'Toole
perception ordinary-things life-is
Do not forget that the value and interest of life is not so much to do conspicuous things...as to do ordinary things with the perception of their enormous value. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
perfect saying-yes example
My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain. Phyllis George
perception morality modern
Modern morality is all about perception. Rachel Cusk
perfection evil contradiction
The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil. Rabindranath Tagore
persona persons
I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona. Queen Rania of Jordan
perspective different good-things
The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective. Queen Latifah
perfect people black
There's no way I can represent for everyone. I can't represent for all women or all big women or all black women. It's important for people not to make celebrities their source of who they should be in life. I can't take on the pressure of being perfect. Nobody is. Queen Latifah
perseverance passion
Patience, passion and perseverance equals success. Pitbull
perfect people grace
The thing I was beginning to figure out about Sam and Grace, the thing about Sam not being able to function without her, was that that sort of love only worked when you were sure both people would always be around for each other. If one half of the equation left, or died, or was slightly less perfect in their love, it became the most tragic, pathetic story invented, laughable in its absurdity. Without Grace, Sam was a joke without a punch line. Maggie Stiefvater
perfect-days glasses singing
All these perfect days, made of glass Put on the shelf where they can cast perfect shadows that stretch and grow on the imperfect days down below. ... perfect shadows that shift and glow... ... perfect shadows that shift and grow..." "Sam singing on page 256 of Linger. Maggie Stiefvater
perfectly-good meals ruined
He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals. Maggie Stiefvater
perfect guy romance
I am not a huge fan of the one-sided pining romances where the guy is a perfect love-object because we don't see inside his head. Maggie Stiefvater
perfect soul pieces
a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither. Madame de Stael
perseverance athlete keys
It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential. Lynn Davies
perfect sputnik world
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Haruki Murakami
perfect imperfection imperfect
All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious. Haruki Murakami
personal-opinions talking giving
She's always polite and kind, but her words lack the kind of curiosity and excitement you'd normally expect. Her true feelings- assuming such things exist- remain hidden away. Except for when a practical sort of decision has to be made, she never gives her personal opinion about anything. She seldom talks about herself, instead letting others talk, nodding warmly as she listens. But most people start to feel vaguely uneasy when talking with her, as if they suspect they're wasting her time, trampling on her private, graceful, dignified world. And that impression is, for the most part, correct. Haruki Murakami
perfect world pointless-things
Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world? Remove everything pointless from an imperfect life, and it'd lose even its imperfection. Haruki Murakami
perfection imperfect limitless
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. Haruki Murakami
perfection fresh-start happens
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away. Haruki Murakami
perfection excellence locks
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better. Harlan Ellison
personality robust rejects
A true personality . . . is like a robust organism that, with unconscious sureness, seeks out and digests the nourishment appropriate to it and vigorously rejects that which is unsuitable. Gustav Mahler