Mark Twain Quotes

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Anybody who comes to you and says he has a perfect language is either naive or a salesman.

Perfectionism is self destructive simply because there's no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal.

Why speak if you can't manage perfect thoughts, perfect sentences?

Man will ever remain imperfect, and it will always be his part to try to be perfect.

Perfectionism is self-destructive simply because there is no such thing as perfect. Perfection is an unattainable goal. Additionally, perfectionism is more about perception - we want to be perceived as perfect. Again, this is unattainable - there is no way to control perception, regardless of how much time and energy we spend trying.

I was always in search of a perfect game and I never got it.

In a logically perfect language, there will be one word and no more for every simple object, and everything that is not simple will be expressed by a combination of words, by a combination derived, of course, from the words for the simple things that enter in, one word for each simple component.

In trying to be perfect, He perfected the art of anonymity, Became imperceptible And arrived nowhere from nowhere.

The world will fall, the gods will die, and I will never achieve a perfect score on this stupid machine. -Dionysus

It distresses us to return work which is not perfect.

There is always something wrong with a song, you can't be perfect.

That everyone won't see it, that everyone won't join you, that everyone won't have the vision... it's necessary to know that... See I wanted everyone to like me, I wanted to be perfect the first time around. IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. You're gonna make some mistakes, you are gonna create some enemies whenever you decide to take on the world and go after you passion.

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

It's okay to be you. You don't have to try to be anybody else. Whatever you are, however you are, it's fine. Nobody's perfect.

Maybe everyone doesn't deserve a second chance. If I can be perfect why can't you?

So we gave up. I'd finally had enough of chasing after a ghost who did not want to be seen. We'd failed, maybe, but some mysteries aren't meant to be solved.

What is earthly happiness? that phantom of which we hear so much, and see so little; whose promises are constantly given and constantly broken, but as constantly believed; that cheats us with the sound instead of the substance, and with the blossom instead of the fruit. Like Juno, she is a goddess in pursuit, but a cloud in possession.

It is very rarely granted even to Nature herself to produce anything absolutely perfect in every part.

Being perfect is being flawed, accepting it, and never letting it make you feel less than your best.

To me, recordings are little fourth-dimension artifacts, because they already are representatives of past, present, and future, just inherently in their existence.

I put a lot of pressure on myself early in my life, like, "You have to be perfect; you can't do anything." You basically can't show any emotion and speak up. And then I realized that I have to live my life for myself.

Because your goal is a complete rough draft of a novel, and every rough draft, by being complete, is perfect.

It's very hard to grow up in a perfect family when you're not perfect.

You show me a perfect person and I'll show you somebody who has lived a very closed life.