Dora Russell Quotes

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. 'Til your good is better and your better is best.

When we rehearse, we're always trying to aim for something else. But we never quite succeed in getting there.

You can't ever reach perfection in this business, but that's one of the things I love. It's something that can't ever be mastered, but you can attempt to get as close as possible.

Man must strive, and striving he must err.

If it were better, it wouldn't be as good.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly.

If you strive toward the perfect run, accepting that you will always come up short of that is very intriguing. It makes me think about how in life in general, we always want to strive toward perfection, but sometimes perfection would be the worst thing.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Ever up and onward.

Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve.

Although engineers want always to make everything better, they cannot make anything perfect. This basic characteristic flaw of the products of the profession's practitioners is what drives change and makes achievement a process rather than simply a goal.

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

We shall strive for perfection. We shall not achieve it immediately--but we still shall strive. We may make mistakes--but they must never be mistakes which result from faintness of heart or abandonment of moral principle.

I couldn't do everything in the first or second day; it took me years to be able to get to the achievement that I've had. I wasn't perfect from the beginning.

Even though you strive for perfection, you're never going to play the perfect game.

I never want to stop, and I want to try to be even better.

Part of being an athlete is constantly striving for more. We're looking for perfection in a world where that doesn't exist. No matter what we do and what we accomplish or how we perform, we're always looking at areas we can improve upon.

I understand that you cannot always be on the top or be the best.

You never really get to be good at anything.

We always want more, more, more. You see good work; you want it better. We push, push, push.

We are never satisfied. We always try to improve.

Every time we record, and every time we go out live, we try and beat what we've already done.

We do not do everything perfectly, but the intentions are there.

I don't think there's any such thing as perfection. But I'm a perfectionist. I don't believe in the idea of perfection, but I will strive to achieve it.