Practice makes permanent, not perfect. If you practice the wrong thing, you make the wrong act permanent. — Hamza Yusuf Copy Share Image
The opposite of esprit d'escalier is the way that life's embarrassments come back to haunt us even after they're long past. I… — Cory Doctorow Copy Share Image
The first serious consciousness of Nature's gesture - her attitude towards life-took form then as a phantasm, a nightmare, all insanity of… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
...never let a passion for the perfect take precedence over pragmatism. — Walter Isaacson Copy Share Image
His system of morality was the most benevolent and sublime probably that has been ever taught, and consequently more perfect than those… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
“The wise man believes profoundly in silence, the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body,… — Charles Alexander Eastman Copy Share Image
I had written eight drafts of the Lemony Snicket' screenplay when this changing-of-the-guard thing happened, and I said to the new producers,… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Sinclair Lewis is the perfect example of the false sense of time of the newspaper world.... [ellipsis in source] He was always… — Gertrude Stein Copy Share Image
I don't want to give people the impression that I'm an almost perfect human being. — Dale Murphy Copy Share Image
Nobody is perfect, so get over the fear of being or doing everything perfectly. Besides perfect is boring. — Jillian Michaels Copy Share Image
Book love... is your pass to the greatest, the purest, and the most perfect pleasure that God has prepared for His creatures. — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Adina appealed to the sky. "We asked for rescue and you sent us incompetent rockstar pirates with a broken ship and perfect… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
Movies have these transcendent moments where everything is just right, from the dialogue to the music to the lighting to the narrative… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Too much polishing and you spoil things. There's a limit to the expressibility of ideas. You have a new thought, an interesting… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
There's a time in your life where you're not quite sure where you are. You think everything's perfect, but it's not perfect...… — Tom DeLonge Copy Share Image
She's kind of a walking poem, she's this perfect beauty...but at the same time very deep, very smart. — Johnny Depp Copy Share Image
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services,… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
"The love of God, unutterable and perfect, flows into a pure soul the way light rushes into a transparent object. The more… — Dante Alighieri Copy Share Image
The high notes always hard to hit. I mean, one has to understand how high notes even happen. The vocal cords have… — Jessye Norman Copy Share Image
The specific influences on villains to me is, I love the villains who are really hyper-smart. When at the end of the… — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
This is the way I think about politics: We want two diametrically opposed things from a politician. On one hand we want… — Beau Willimon Copy Share Image
The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what… — Kathleen McGowan Copy Share Image
