Famous Quotes & Sayings

Ben Okri

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Edmund Burke

The body of all true religion consists, to be sure, in obedience to the will of the Sovereign of the world, in a confidence in His declarations, and in imitation of His perfections.

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.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Dora Russell

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Colleen McCullough

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Colleen Hoover

Imperfections define perfection

Debora Spar

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

Nick Faldo

One thing America hasn't had is good partnership.

Arthur Henderson

The nations must be organized internationally and induced to enter into partnership, subordinating in some measure national sovereignty to worldwide institutions and obligations.

Brigitte Bardot

The myth of Bardot is finished, but Brigitte is me.

Adam Savage

Failure is always an option.

Roger Zelazny

I know, too, that death is the only god who comes when you call.

Tina Turner

I am attracted to myths.

Stanislaw Jerzy Lec

Create your own myths; that is how the gods got started.

Jean Houston

A myth is something that never was but that is always happening.

Cassandra Clare

There is no one religion, no one truth and no myth lacks meaning

Amanda Lenhart

It debunks the myth of the tech-savvy boy,

Jonathan Galassi

If you've worked in a company for a long time, there's a mythology that you know by heart, you don't need to look it up to evoke. It's there in your blood, as it were.