Krzysztof Penderecki Quotes

My attitude is never to be satisfied, never enough, never.

I'm never satisfied, man. I'm Virgo. We overanalyze and we're never satisfied. So I'm gonna keep going 'til the wheels fall off.

Fashion is a very ongoing, renewing thing, about change and reaching for the next thing. You are permanently dissatisfied, and it's always got to get better.

I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

What moves those of genius, what inspires their work is not new ideas, but their obsession with the idea that what has already been said is still not enough.

I'm never satisfied with anything. It can make things hard for myself, but it also pushes me.

I'm always looking to learn and am never happy with how I am going. I think once you get comfortable with what you are offering it is dangerous territory to be in.

For me, I am not a fan of any of my own matches, and it's both a blessing and a curse. Because I'm never satisfied, I'm always looking to improve in every area.

I'm always looking for perfection. Even after training and my coaches say I did good, I always think I could have done more.

I'm not satisfied with doing well or doing good.

I've always had that personality that nothing was never good enough.

I always think I could do better. I always think that something could be more perfect, but I think that that's just within my nature. I think I want to please a director, I want to give my everything and find every which way I could have burrowed further into a character.

The philosophy at Valve and Gearbox is that if things can't be done better, they shouldn't be done at all.

That's the thing with me: I'm never satisfied.

I don't like to get comfortable. I don't like to be like, 'Oh, my song is all over the place. I'm lit.' Nah, it makes me wanna keep working.

I'm never happy with my performances. I always want more and better for myself.

As a breed, I think artists are never 100% satisfied with their work, and we will always want that little bit of extra time to put the final gloss on it.

I can never rest. I need to always do more. I always want to do more. I'm never going to be satisfied. That's it: Never be satisfied.

You can never rest on what you did yesterday; it's old.

As I wrote more I became more critical of myself and I think that you have to be your harshest judge. I don't ever believe that what I write is my best work. I always think that I can hone it. I can always think that I can make it a little bit better.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied with my work. I resent the limitations of my own imagination.

To strive consciously for an object and to engage in engineering -- that is, incessantly and eternally to make new roads, wherever they may lead.

If I ever feel like I’m doing something I’ve done before, I scrap it and start over again.

Being an artist isn't a genetic disposition or a specific talent. It's an attitude we can all adopt. It's a hunger to seize new ground, make connections, and work without a map. If you do those things, you're an artist.