Jared Polis Quotes

If you want reality to be different than it is, you might as well try to teach a cat to bark.

There's folks 'ud hold a sieve under the pump and expect to carry away the water.

I've yet to meet a writer who could change water into wine, and we have a tendency to treat them like that.

Trying to be Supermom is as futile as trying to be Perfect Mom. Not going to happen.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Who is ever adequate? We all create situations each other can't live up to, then break our hearts at them because they don't.

If we hope for what we are not likely to possess, we act and think in vain, and make life a greater dream and shadow than it really is.

If wishes were fishes we'd all be throwing nets. If wishes were horses we'd all ride.

Whoever thinks a faultless piece to see, Thinks what ne'er was, nor is, nor e'er shall be.

It is frequently a misfortune to have very brilliant men in charge of affairs. They expect too much of ordinary men.

Body image - what we're supposed to look like - is made so unattainable that all girls are put in this position of feeling inferior. That's a horrible thing.

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations.

If you have an impossible dream, a dream that cannot be fulfilled, the friendly thing for me to do is to put a stop to you wasting your life at it.

Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task.

I'm not promoting anything totally unhealthy because I'm not unhealthy. But I am promoting an ideal that's not attainable, and for that I have to feel guilty. I have to assume some blame for that.

Not just in modeling, but in society, there's so much pressure about what a woman should be, and, of course, it's just so unobtainable. You can never become that thing, because it's such a projection.

I do have impossibly high standards.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

There will always be voices that basically say: Unless it's the perfect solution, we want no solution. That is unrealistic.

The insistence on a perfect cure often results in no betterment whatsoever.

I'm tired of seeing perfect people on TV.

Everyone is comparing lives on social media and wants the perfect body, perfect image, perfect outfit, perfect life - we're striving for this perfection, and it's so unhealthy because there's no such thing as perfection.

I do feel like, especially nowadays, we are inundated with the message that, 'Oh my God, you aren't making your own clothes? You didn't make your own bread? And you also don't have a career, and you don't look unbelievable, and you have 5 pounds on your frame? Where is your book that you haven't published yet?'

A lot of times you can fall into the trap of expecting too much before things actually happen.

I think that people put a lot of worth into looks. Unfortunately, there's a standard that so many people look up to that is unrealistic for everyone's body type.