Famous Quotes & Sayings

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Eileen Caddy

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

Edsger Dijkstra

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

Aristotle

Neither by nature, then, nor contrary to nature do the virtues arise in us; rather we are adapted by nature to receive them, and are made perfect by habit.

Ben Jonson

True melancholy breeds your perfect fine wit.

We're confused. We don't understand the judge's reaction. We're perfectly prepared to prosecute this case.

Kristin Cast

I am unique, a sheep, intimidating, scared, powerful, beautiful, flawed, and perfect in the same moment.

Theophilus London

I want to wear something that's not perfectly matching; there has to be something unorthodox about it. I want to create this mystery.

Alejandro Jodorowsky

Every one of us is a perfect human being, deformed by the family, the society and the culture.

Aleister Crowley

For pure will, unassuaged of purpose, delivered from the lust of result, is every way perfect.

Alberto Moravia

Good writers are monotonous, like good composers. They keep trying to perfect the one problem they were born to understand.

Albert Einstein

Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.

Alfred Stieglitz

Technically perfect, pictorially rotten. (Stieglitz's standard comment on photographs he rejected for publication in The American Amateur Photographer.)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

And was the day of my delight As pure and perfect as I say?

Aldous Huxley

Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

Aldous Huxley

Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine, he went on, preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him?

Albert Einstein

There is nothing known as "Perfect". Its only those imperfections which we choose not to see!!

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

Alexander Hamilton

The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs of the particular members of a confederacy, will at all times be ready, with perfect good humor, and an unbiased regard to the public weal, to execute the resolutions of decrees of the general authority." "This tendency is not difficult to be accounted for," Publius argues, "It has its origin in the love of power.

We want the fairest arrangement we can. There is probably no perfect system.

Adelaide Kane

Nobody wants to watch perfect people.

Adam Dunn

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

Adam Dunn

Cincinnati is perfect for me. I've met a lot of good people there who like to fish.

Adam Clarke

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

Adam Clarke

Now an infinite happiness cannot be purchased by any price less than that which is infinite in value; and infinity of merit can only result from a nature that is infinitely divine or perfect

Abu Bakar Bashir

Islam is perfect, there is nothing to be added or changed.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

A. J. P. Taylor

Perfect soldier, perfect gentleman never gave offence to anyone not even the enemy.

A. E. Housman

Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

A. E. Housman

Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out . . .. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.

Adrianne Palicki

Maybe I could be Supergirl on Broadway! That would be perfect.

Adam Rapp

When I kicked in the first TV – a nineteen-inch Magnavox with wicker speaker panels – it felt like the most perfect thing I had done in a long time. And there's nothing like the feeling of perfection that will inspire repeated behavior.

Abraham Maslow

We fear our highest possibility. We are generally afraid to become that which we can glimpse in our most perfect moments.