Vernon Howard Quotes

I've never been super confident about anything. The work is never as good as it could be.

Nobody's perfect, and to try to pretend you're perfect is an exhausting fool's errand.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Not everybody is perfect, and I don't think we should be looking for perfect people.

Well, once we finish something, I can't really listen to it because all I hear are problems.

Everyone complains of his memory, but no one complains of his judgment.

No human being should be a role model. We all have flaws.

I never feel like anything I have done is perfect. I feel like there is always room for improvement.

The problem with people is that no matter how good you are at what you do, it's never enough for them. There will always be someone to point out some flaw. Someone will always find something lacking in you.

Good heavens! what a foolish thing is this pretended perfectibility of the human race which is continually being dinned into our ears!

I would just imagine there's a criticism for just about everything, if you want to take something down. No one's invincible. The Jicks are a work in progress and we don't think everything we do is the bee's knees or something, we're just trying our best to get turned on by what we're doing.

The attempt to make heaven on earth invariably produces hell.

Improvements are invented only by those who can feel that something is not good.

People are human. There's such a premium today on being perfect. That's just not the way people are.

Men cease to interest us when we find their limitations. The only sin is limitation. As soon as you once come up with a man's limitations, it is all over with him.

There isn't any way to libel the human race.

Engineering, like poetry, is an attempt to approach perfection. And engineers, like poets, are seldom completely satisfied with their creations. They notice, even if no one else does, the world that is not quite le mot juste, or the hairline crack that blemishes the structure.

You need to understand things in order to invent beyond them.

People are like birds - from a distance, beautiful: from close up, those sharp beaks, those beady little eyes.

The Frenchman is first and foremost a man. He is likeable often just because of his weaknesses, which are always thoroughly human, even if despicable.

There are ugly aspects to every single person's character. In being truthful, actors do have to show the ugly side of someone's character. We all behave like dicks sometimes.

To me He is all fault who hath no fault at all: For who loves me must have a touch of earth.

My message behind this album was finding the beauty in imperfection.

Our admiration of a famous man lessens upon our nearer acquaintance with him; and we seldom hear of a celebrated person without a catalogue of some notorious weaknesses and infirmities.

Why can't we resist the urge to second-guess and evaluate each other?...Sometimes I wonder if the final judgment will be a breeze compared with what we've put each other through here on earth. p 225