Excellence Quote by Robert Coover Download Open image ““She strives, understanding the futility of it, for perfection.”” — Robert Coover ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Excellence Learning
“A perfectionist's greatest fault resides in her inability to achieve the impossible.” — Diane Klammer Copy Share Image
“Perfection is something everyone strives for, but it’s elusive and may be an illusion.” — R.L. Griffin Copy Share Image
“Let her own shortfalls, and not your vindictive perfectionism, be the quality that throws her to destruction.” — Janny Wurts Copy Share Image
“Practice makes permentant, never perfection, but perfection is a goal to strive for.” — Jordan Mak Copy Share Image
“In this life, there is not the need for perfection, nor is there sufficient time to achieve it.” — Benedict Kruse Copy Share Image
“Always remember... Perfection is not attainable, but if you chase perfection you can catch excellence and beyond. Be fearless...” — Ziad K. Abdelnour Copy Share Image
“Perfection itself is not the ultimate goal but the ultimate condition of life.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“Unfortunately, perfectionism dies slowly. It’s persistent and particularly dangerous because it masquerades as excellence” — Jon Acuff Copy Share Image
Metafiction says something. It has to do with taking a large fiction itself and writing within it; that kind of self-reflecting writing that emerges… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
I see no reason to stop writing. But the reason isn't always one of your own. The mind is not invulnerable, and it can… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
If you start thinking about the kids being born now, for them the computer is ancient history. So one imagines that when children think of it as the only place to be, because there isn't anywhere else, then the geniuses of those generations will find their way into doing something that is impressive and as good as a Shakespeare or… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“Black holes are the seductive dragons of the universe, outwardly quiescent yet violent at the heart, uncanny, hostile, primeval, emitting a negative radiance that draws all toward them, gobbling up all who come too close. Once having entered the tumultuous orbit of a black hole, nothing can break away from its passionate but fatal embrace. Though cons of teasing play… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“I nearly drownded on the Big River back home, but I didn't. Instead, I come to love the river, though the river never loved… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
There's no need to inundate the world with books and language. It's just too full already. There's so much rubbish hiding in the world.… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
“Oh, he shouldn't be surprised, he's a Marxist and has nothing but contempt for the bourgeois capitalist press, yet paradoxically he is also somehow an Americanist and a believer in Science and Freedom and History and Reason, and it dismays him to see cruelty politely concealed in data, madness taken for granted and even honored, truth buried away and rotting… — Robert Coover Copy Share
“Why we write. Because art blows life into the lifeless, death into the deathless. Because art's lie is preferable, in truth, to life's beautiful terror. Because as time does not pass (nothing, as Beckett tells us, passes) it passes the time. Because Death, our mirthless master, is somehow amused by epitaphs. Because epitaphs well struck give Death, our vorcious master,… — Robert Coover Copy Share
What I saw quite clearly in the '80s, before the internet, was that the whole world was shifting toward digital formats, and that didn't matter whether it's movies or writing or whatever. It was something that was coming. And with the invention of the World Wide Web in the early '90s, when we were teaching our first courses, or the… — Robert Coover Copy Share
Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything. — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing a weakening of the tribal structures that sustain them, reinforce with their tales the conventional notions of justice, freedom, law and order, nature, family, etc. The writer, lone rider, has the power, if not always the skills, wisdom,… — Robert Coover Copy Share
The pursuit of perfection is frustrating and a waste of time, because nothing is ever perfect. The pursuit of excellence is commendable and worthwhile.… — Alan Kulwicki Copy Share Image
“But young men have not only this frivolous ambition of being thought masters of execution, inciting them on the one hand, but also their natural sloth tempting them on the other. They are terrified at the prospect before them, of the toil required to attain exactness. The impetuosity of youth is disgusted at the slow approaches of a regular siege,… — Anonymous Copy Share
Many humanists have argued that happiness involves a combination of hedonism and creative moral development; that an exuberant life fuses excellence and enjoyment, meaning… — Paul Kurtz Copy Share Image
Our civilization, bequeathed to us by fierce adventurers, eaters of meat and hunters, is so full of hurry and combat, so busy about many… — James Joyce Copy Share Image
“In your goals to go the extra mile, prepare to pay an extra cost. Excellence is to be exceptional, surpassing, more competent and a… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
We want to promote the great quality of athletics - and maintain it's integrity - all over the world. — Alberto Juantorena Copy Share Image
“Anytime I see a rainbow, what comes into my mind is how skillful and talented someone was to create an ark that didn't leak… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
If you are the master be sometimes blind, if you are the servant be sometimes deaf. — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
