Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bruce Sterling

But from another, deeper perspective: we shouldn't involve outselves in lines of development where the ultimate victory condition is emulating dead people. There's no appeal in that. It's bad for us. That kind of inherent mournfulness is just not a good way to be human.

Brian Tracy

Perhaps the greatest display of self-discipline is persisting when the going gets tough. Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is self-discipline in action.

Brian Tracy

Never consider the possibility of failure; as long as you persist, you will be successful.

Brian Tracy

How much we like ourselves governs our performance.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the great measure of individual human character.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the measurement of your belief in yourself.

Brian Tracy

Persistence is the iron quality of success; if you persist long enough you must eventually succeed

Brian Tracy

Your persistence is your belief in yourself.

Brian Tracy

Imagine your ideal future. Visualize yourself as if your life were perfect in every respect.

Brian Tracy

Your persistence is, in fact, the true measure of your belief in yourself and your ability to succeed. Each time that you persist in the face of adversity and disappointment, you build the habit of persistence.

Brad Pitt

Stop being perfect, because obsessing over being perfect stops you from growing.

Brad Feld

I no longer really ever like to be pitched. Instead, I prefer to engage in a relationship as part of learning the other person.

Boyd Rice

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

Boyd Rice

When you are born without the ordinary feelings and emotions shared by most other human beings, life looks different to you. It seems at times like a movie you’re walking through, more a spectator than a participant. There is above all a lack of empathy with most of mankind, a sense of detachment. But with detachment comes perspective. The less you care, the more you know, and the more you know the less you care.

Jane Kaczmarek

Gardening is peaceful, yet there is a great element of failure. It's the perfect metaphor for life -- a lot of pleasure, then it's over. There's great satisfaction in tending something, feeling it needs you, even if it's just a plant on your windowsill.

Jane Hirshfield

Poetry's work is not simply the recording of inner or outer perception; it makes by words and music new possibilities of perceiving

Jane Goodall

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

Jane Fonda

Good enough is good enough. We're not supposed to be perfect. We're supposed to be complete.

Jane Fonda

All my life I had believed that unless I was perfect I would not be loved.

Jane Fonda

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We're supposed to be complete and whole, and you can't be whole if you're trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Jane Fonda

Perfection is a toxic desire. We are not supposed to be perfect. The challenge is not to be perfect, it's to be whole.

Jane Fonda

We're not meant to be perfect. It took me a long time to learn that.

Jane Fonda

We don't need to be perfect. We're not supposed to be perfect; we're supposed to be complete. And you can't be complete if you're trying to be perfect.

Jane Fonda

We are not meant to be perfect; we are meant to be whole

Jan Morris

the personality of St. John's, Newfoundland, hits you like a smack in the face with a dried cod, enthusiastically administered by its citizenry.

James Weldon Johnson

As I look back now I can see that I was a perfect little aristocrat.

Kurt Angle

There are so many things that have evolved since I wrestled. They don't have periods anymore. They have rounds... it confuses the younger demographic.

We're 99.9 percent sure there was no one else on board.

We're 100 percent going with the flow, no songs whatsoever. That's as structured as it gets.

We're always physical, we'll always play like that. We're going to play a lot quicker than we have played. We're going to press a lot more. We have the personnel that can play the way we want to.

We did real well. We had a lot of personal bests tonight.

Craig Stevens

We didn't talk about the decision at all, which was great, just to get together as friends. The only thing he said to me was 'It's your decision. Just do what you have to do and I will back you 100 per cent.