“Be avid. Create apart from perfection. Risk failure. Cover your words with sweat. Run a little Touch excruciatingly. Laugh until you cry. Dance with your eyes closed. Care. Understand you die a little in every moment. Be Enlivened” LoveLittlesMomentsEyeCareRunningDiesCareersLaughingRiskCryFailurePerfectionOver YouSweatAvid Author:Mary Anne Radmacher
“Only gods can safely risk perfection ... it's a dangerous thing for a man.” MenRiskDangerousPerfectionDangerous Things Author:Frank Herbert
“I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.” RiskLosingPerfectionSeekingLosing Everything Author:Jean Chretien
“Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.” MatterFeelingsRecordsRiskSecurityPromiseMusicianPerfectionFunctionStudiosEquipmentSubjectiveMachineryBlanketUnwilling Author:Jon Landau
“A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.” IfsMenInspirationalWellsInspiringRiskPerfectionFaultsMotivational SportsLazinessPerfectionismPerfectionistTaking RisksRisk ItRisk-takingGreat RiskRisks And Taking ChancesRisking Your Heart Author:John Henry Newman
“The best literature is always a take [in the musical sense]; there is an implicit risk in its execution, a margin of danger that is the pleasure of the flight, of the love, carrying with it a tangible loss but also a total engagement that, on another level, lends the theater its unparalleled imperfection faced with the perfection of film. I don’t want to write anything but takes.” WantWritingFilmLiteratureLossPleasureLevelsRiskDangerPerfectionTheaterMusicalFlightImperfectionEngagementExecutionMarginsTangibleImplicitBest Literature Author:Julio Cortazar
“Both Matilda and Lavender were enthralled. It was quite clear to them that they were at this moment standing in the presence of a master. Here was somebody who had brought the art of skulduggery to the highest point of perfection, somebody, moreover, who was willing to risk life and limb in pursuit of her calling. They gazed in wonder at this goddess, and suddenly even the boil on her nose was no longer a blemish but a badge of courage.” ArtMomentsWonderClearRiskWillingMastersCallingHighestStandingPerfectionPursuitNosesGoddessLimbsBadgesLavender Author:Roald Dahl
“The existence of a world without God seems to me less absurd than the presence of a God, existing in all of his perfection, creating imperfect man in order to make him run the risk of Hell.” MenWorldSeemsRunningOrderExistenceHellRiskCreatingPerfectionAtheistAbsurdImperfectGod ExistsWithout GodExistence Of GodPerfect ManImperfect Man Author:Armand Salacrou
“Rarely are opportunities presented to you in a perfect way. In a nice little box with a yellow bow on top. 'Here, open it, it's perfect. You'll love it.' Opportunities -- the good ones -- are messy, confusing and hard to recognize. They're risky. They challenge you.” WayLittlesHardOpportunityChallengesPerfectNiceRiskPerfectionBoxesYellowBowsRecognizingConfusingMessy Author:Susan Wojcicki