America is ungovernable. He who serves a revolution ploughs the sea.
High expectations produce high frustrations.
Dreams that are planned are called frustration.
There are so many people working so hard and achieving so little.
The maxim ‘Nothing avails but perfection’ may be spelled shorter: ‘Paralysis.’
The General wanted to make further improvements before manufacturing new assault craft.
The protagonist in 'Deacon Blues' is a triple-L loser - an L-L-L Loser. It's not so much about a guy who achieves his dream but about a broken dream of a broken man living a broken life.
People mistake their limitations for high standards.
Perfectionism rarely begets perfection, or satisfaction - only disappointment.
Lost causes are the only ones worth fighting for.
There's nothing wrong with having goals, but obsessing over them is often counterproductive because, in reality, achieving a goal isn't always what it's cracked up to be.
Broch is an inspiration to us, not only because of what he accomplished, but also because of all that he aimed at and could not attain.
I never found beauty in longing for the impossible and never found the possible to be beyond my reach.
The time has come to stop beating our heads against stone walls under the illusion that we have been appointed policeman to the human race.
If you have a level of expectation in your life that you have to be a quote-unquote star, whatever that means, you might be setting yourself up for failure.
You gotta learn that if you don't get it by midnight, chances are you ain't gonna get it, and if you do, it ain't worth it.
If wishes were horses, beggars could ride.
As women we try so hard to be perfect at everything, all the time. It's impossible.
A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.