Famous Quotes & Sayings

Miranda Kerr

I'm very direct. It's part of my personality. I've actually grown into that.

Miranda July

The thing I am most interested in is power relations - it is so easy to imagine that the other person is living a perfect life.

Miranda July

My way into making movies - into making things is general - has been through performing.

Mike Murdock

The treatment you permit reveals the portray you have of yourself.

Mignon McLaughlin

Always live up to your standards — by lowering them, if necessary.

Mignon McLaughlin

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

John Williams

There was a perception that the emerging-market problems aren't over and concern that may Brazil devalue.

John Wooden

Big things are accomplished only through the perfection of minor details.

John Wooden

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.

John Wooden

Give me 100 percent. You can't make up for a poor effort today by giving 110 percent tomorrow. You don't have 110 percent. You only have 100 percent, and that's what I want from you right now.

John Ruskin

Obedience is, indeed, founded on a kind of freedom, else it would become mere subjugation, but that freedom is only granted that obedience may be more perfect; and thus while a measure of license is necessary to exhibit the individual energies of things, the fairness and pleasantness and perfection of them all consist in their restraint.

John Ruskin

Perfect taste is the faculty of receiving the greatest possible pleasure from those material sources which are attractive to oar moral nature in its purity and perfection.

John Ruskin

Absolute ugliness is admitted as rarely as perfect beauty; but degrees of it more or less distinct are associated with whatever has the nature of death and sin, just as beauty is associated with what has the nature of virtue and of life.

John Ruskin

Of human work none but what is bad can be perfect in its own bad way.

John Ruskin

If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good.

Matthew Arnold

Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances.

Matthew Arnold

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Matt Kenseth

With my personality, I generally don't like change a lot. I reflect back on things quicker than I should at times. So it seems like it's gone by really quick. The older you get, the faster it seems to go by.

Meg Rosoff

If there was ever a more perfect day in the history of time it isn't one I've heard about.

Meg Cabot

Some people can seem perfect... everything about them can, on paper, be just right. Until you get to know them. Really know them. Then you find out, in the end, while they might be perfect to every one else, they just aren't right for you.

Meg Cabot

But once I'd come up with it, I realized it really was the perfect plan. Instead of waiting for Maria to come to me, I was simply going to go to her and, well... Send her back to where she came. Or reduce her to a mound of quivering gelatinous goo. Whichever came first.

May-Britt Moser

A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it.

Max Weber

The term 'charisma' will be applied to a certain quality of an individual personality by virtue of which he is considered extraordinary and treated as endowed with supernatural, superhuman, or at least specifically exceptional powers or qualities. These are such as are not accessible to the ordinary person, but are regarded as of divine origin or as exemplary, and on the basis of them the individual concerned is treated as a 'leader.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

I am not in front of my body, I am in it or rather I am it... If we can still speak of interpretation in relation to the perception of one's own body, we shall have to say that it interprets itself.

Matthew Caws

I should choose to be happy. You can choose; you can just throw a switch since, your whole life, it?s just in your brain anyway. It?s just your perception of it.

Mark Shields

If Donald Trump does lose, being revealed as this bizarre personality, Ted Cruz is not going to be what Republicans are looking for in 2020.

Marina and the Diamonds

I'm a very, very disciplined person.

Marina Abramovic

It's okay that we're not perfect. It's okay that we all have problems. It's okay to cry, to show emotions.

Maria Montessori

At a given moment a child becomes interested in a piece of work, showing it by the expression of his face, by his intense attention, by his perseverance in the same exercise. That child has set foot upon the road leading to discipline.

Matt Berninger

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

Patricia Hewitt

People are not perfect... very often the relationships that are strongest are those where people have worked through big crises, but they've had to work through them. So the challenge to us is to work through that.

Patricia Briggs

We are none of us perfect, and...we learn to take these imperfections and make them only a small part of who we are

Pat Mitchell

The perception of bias isn't there, that's what I told Ken Tomlinson, ... The majority of Americans do not perceive a bias.