The thing that is really hard, and really amazing, is giving up on being perfect and beginning the work of becoming yourself. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
About Anna Quindlen Anna Marie Quindlen (born July 8, 1952) is an American author, journalist, and opinion columnist.
More quotations from Anna Quindlen The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: exercise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The world is full of women blindsided by the unceasing demands of motherhood, still flabbergasted by how a job can be terrific and torturous. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: parents Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Or what about the statue in California currently said to be crying bloody tears? Why worry about the alleged weeping of a plaster effigy when so many actual human beings have reason to cry? —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
O ye of little faith, who believe that somehow the birth of Christ is dependent upon acknowledgment in a circular from OfficeMax! —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: God Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I can't think of anything to write about except families. They are a metaphor for every other part of society. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: family Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I think that anyone who comes upon a Nautilus machine suddenly will agree with me that its prototype was clearly invented at some time in history when torture was considered a reasonable alternative to diplomacy. —Anna Quindlen More about this quote Tags: exercise Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
More quotations tagged with “perfection” I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. —Alexander Hamilton More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be. —Sarah Dessen in That Summer More about this quote Tags: time memory perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email The perfection of art is to conceal art. —Quintilian More about this quote Tags: perfection art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all. —Jane Green in Mr. Maybe More about this quote Tags: delusion perfection perception women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. —Alexander Hamilton More about this quote Tags: perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
And I knew I would remember this night, in the same misty way I'd remembered all the good things, as a time when things were as perfect as they could be. —Sarah Dessen in That Summer More about this quote Tags: time memory perfection Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The perfection of art is to conceal art. —Quintilian More about this quote Tags: perfection art Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I do what most women do. I meet someone and some of it's right, maybe he looks right, or has the right job, or the right background, and, instead of sitting back and waiting for him to reveal his other bits, I make them up. I decide how he thinks, how he's going to treat me, and, sure enough, every time I conclude that this time he's definitely my perfect man, and all of a sudden, well, not so suddenly perhaps, usually around six months after we've split up, I see that he wasn't the person I thought he was at all. —Jane Green in Mr. Maybe More about this quote Tags: delusion perfection perception women Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways. —Samuel McChord Crothers More about this quote Tags: perfection imperfection failure labor work effort trying Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email