Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jake Busey

I go on at least 2-3 auditions a week in the pursuit of more work. So I'm constantly working on material and constantly honing and trying to perfect a craft that is never perfectible - it's always new, and it's always different. It's always a work in progress.

Jake Gyllenhaal

Theater has given me a different perspective on the way I approach films.

Jacques Maritain

In each of us there dwells a mystery, and that mystery is the human personality.

Friedrich Schiller

We are too prone to find fault; let us look for some of the perfections.

Jon Meacham

With the perspective afforded by the passage of time, where does 9/11 rank as a turning point in our national history? For the victims and their families, innocents going about their lives, suddenly and brutally murdered, no other day can ever matter as much.

Jon Landau

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Jon Krakauer

Achieving the summit of a mountain was tangible, immutable, concrete. The incumbent hazards lent the activity a seriousness of purpose that was sorely missing from the rest of my life. I thrilled in the fresh perspective that came from the tipping the ordinary plane of existence on end.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.

Jon Glaser

For me, it feels like my ideas are more specific to random thoughts or single ideas I might have, as opposed to being influenced by a general perception of absurdity.

Jon Foreman

What do we really want to say to the world? Three main themes. The inability to find completion in our modern society, the inability to find completion within ourselves, and the new way to be human in what Christ offers us - His love and His perfect plan of redemption for us.

Jon Foreman

Don't be discouraged, but know that suffering produces perseverance, perseverance brings character, and character brings hope, and this is a hope which will not disappoint us.

Ludwig van Beethoven

Fate gave to man the courage of endurance.

Ludwig Wittgenstein

At the end of reasons comes persuasion.

Luc de Clapiers

It is of no use to possess a lively wit if it is not of the right proportion: the perfection of a clock is not to go fast, but to be accurate.

Louis Sachar

It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward.

Lord Chesterfield

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Jim Valvano

Nothing has ever been accomplished in any walk of life without enthusiasm, without motivation, and without perseverance.

Lupita Nyong'o

Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it.

You couldn't program better weather for a three-week period than we've had this year.

Patrick Sullivan

You can't have an all-time record every year. You can be down 5 percent and still have a robust year.

Chris Young

You can't shut off the shareholders, but 80 percent is a significant hurdle.

Walter Raleigh

Whoso taketh in hand to govern a multitude, either by way of liberty or principality, and cannot assure himself of those persons that are enemies to that enterprise, doth frame a state of short perseverance.

Orson Scott Card

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Madonna Ciccone

I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.

Marina Abramovic

For me, performance is a holy ground. When I perform, I really step into a different state of consciousness.

You can save more than 8 percent at a sale anyway.

Rob Morrow

These are classic, perennial ideals we are dealing with.

It's been very exciting, ... There's so much freedom. You get a different perspective of how things are.

This is not a perfect world. If we have problems, we have to find ways to solve them without stopping trade.

This is set up perfectly for retail - some day. With that said, we would be doing a service, not a disservice.

This is one of the most popular stops. Everyone that has performed here signs the walls.

This is perhaps one of the most unusual gravestones in New Jersey.

Taylor Swift

I realized that I have very long arms so I can take the perfect arm-length picture with fans