Damon Lindelof Quotes

The kind of young woman who can be a terrific torchbearer has high standards all the time, not just in her prom dress, but every, ordinary day.

For so long people have just taken what I do for granted. It is not easy to do year-in, year-out, to win Grand Slams and be No. 1.

I've decided 'Breaking Bad' may be one of the best TV shows ever, but I had to watch every last episode of the first four seasons to come to that conclusion.

And each book has to receive your best effort every single time. No slacking.

Whatever I'm doing, I try and keep the quality very high.

I just want to carry on doing high-quality work.

If you want to be in front of Bayern, you have to play a perfect season.

To accomplish the perfect perfection, a little imperfection helps.

The key to success is to learn to do something right and then do it right every time.

Perfect practice makes perfect.

You're always striving to play that perfect match.

Practice makes perfect. After a long time of practicing, our work will become natural, skillfull, swift, and steady.

Halfway through Numbers, I got really jaded, and I had these unrealistic expectations about what Numbers could be. I thought it should be Emmy-nominated. I was in my mid-20s, so I was kind of shortsighted and silly.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

It's the worst kind of bad film: the kind that gets you all worked up and then lets you down, instead of just being lousy from the first shot.

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract, be they facts or be they principles, under penalty of endless inconsistency and frustration.

I want everything to be perfect, if I'm going to do it.

Sometimes, we're so focused on being consistent that we also lower the bar on amazing. After all, the thinking goes, if we can't be amazing all the time, better to reset the expectation to merely good. Which robs us of the ability to (sometimes) be amazing.

Diligent follow-up and follow-through will set you apart from the crowd and communicate excellence.

I've had it-the agencies, the winking, the networks, the ratings. Anyone who thinks TV is an art medium is crazy-it's an advertising medium.

I'm talking about: Are we competing today, every minute, in everything we do in practice. Are we letting loose and daring to be great here and now? And can we sustain that? And repeat it. Trophies are great, but we're trying to win forever.

When we believe in the impossible, it becomes possible, and we can do all kinds of extraordinary things.

Beerbohm was a genius of the purest kind. He stands at the summit of his art.

To be successful you don't need to do extraordinary things, you just need to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.