Famous Quotes & Sayings

Peter Boyle

I like to work for a while, and then do nothing for some period.

Peter Biskind

'Perfectionist' is the scariest word on a studio lot.

Penelope Cruz

I really like the Caribbean. Anyplace in the Caribbean. I get there, and I feel like a monkey - the perfect state.

Pema Chodron

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

The biggest obstacle to taking a bigger perspective on life is that our emotions capture and blind us.

Pema Chodron

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.

Phil Donahue

This is Sesame Street. A place where people, birds, monsters all live in perfect harmony.

Peter S. Beagle

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 Senge

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

Mastery of creative tension brings out the capacity for perseverance and patience. Time is an ally.

Peter O'Toole

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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.

Phyllis George

My unanticipated success as a sportscaster is a perfect example of the importance of saying yes to yourself, even when you are uncertain.

Rachel Cusk

Modern morality is all about perception.

Rabindranath Tagore

The potentiality of perfection outweighs actual contradictions... Existence in itself is here to prove that it cannot be an evil.

Queen Rania of Jordan

I'd rather be dealt with as a person than a persona.

Queen Latifah

The good thing about movies is that they're subjective. You can connect to different themes depending on your own perspective.

Queen Latifah

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.

Pitbull

Patience, passion and perseverance equals success.

Maggie Stiefvater

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

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

He didn't like to see either of the women in his family disappointed; it ruined perfectly good meals.

Maggie Stiefvater

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.

Madame de Stael

a perfect piece of architecture kindles that aimless reverie, which bears the soul we know not whither.

Lynn Davies

It's perseverance that's the key. It's persevering for long enough to achieve your potential.

Haruki Murakami

Don't pointless things have a place, too, in this far-from-perfect world?

Haruki Murakami

All imperfections are forced upon the imperfect, so the 'perfect' can live content and oblivious.

Haruki Murakami

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

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

A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect.

Haruki Murakami

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.

Harlan Ellison

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.

Gustav Mahler

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.