black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

Excellence does not require perfection.

Related Topics

Excellence Perfection Require

Bagwalas

Popular Authors

Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Make the short story tremendously succinct – with a very short pulse or rhythm – and the closest selection of detail.
HENRY JAMES

Close Detail Make Pulse Rhythm Selection Short Story Succinct Tremendous Very
If I should certainly say to a novice, ‘Write from experience and experience only,’ I should feel that this was rather a tantalizing monition if I were not careful immediately to add, ‘Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost.’
HENRY JAMES

Careful Certainty Experience Feel Immediate Monition Novice Only People Rather Say Tantalize Write
The visible world is but man turned inside out that he may be revealed to himself.
HENRY JAMES

Fear Himself May Reveal Suspense Turned Viable Word
I am incapable of telling you not to feel. Feel, feel, I say – feel for all you’re worth, and even if it half kills you, for that is the only way to live.
HENRY JAMES

Explore Feel Incapable Kill Live Say Tell Worth
Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty enchanting, but rare; goodness very apt to be weak; folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day.
HENRY JAMES

Apt Battle Beauty Defiant Enchant Evil Fact Folly Goodness Insolent Life Rare Strong Weak
Excellence does not require perfection.
HENRY JAMES

Excellence Perfection Require
It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance, for our consideration and application of these things, and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
HENRY JAMES

Application Art Beauty Consideration Important Interest Life Make Process Substitute Thing
I don’t want everyone to like me; I should think less of myself if some people did.
HENRY JAMES

Everyone Less Like Myself People Think Want
if you are going to be pushed you had better jump
HENRY JAMES

Allow Better Desire Go Jump Push Wish
You wanted to look at life for yourself – but you were not allowed; you were punished for your wish.
HENRY JAMES

Allow Life Ook Punish Want Wish Yourself
I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of an artistic process.
HENRY JAMES

Artistic Beauty Force Know Process Substitute
Ideas are, in truth, forces. Infinite, too, is the power of personality. A union of the two always makes history.
HENRY JAMES

Always Force History Idea Infinite Make Personality Power Truth Union
She had an unequalled gift, especially pen in hand, of squeezing big mistakes into small opportunities.
HENRY JAMES

Especially Gift Hand Mistake Opportunity Pen Small Squeeze Unqualified
To myself – today – I need say no more. Large and full and high the future still opens. It is now indeed that I may do the work of my life. And I will.
HENRY JAMES

Future High Indeed Large Life May Work More Myself Need Open Say Success Today
One doesn’t defend one’s god: one’s god is in himself a defense.
HENRY JAMES

Believe Defend Devotion Feel God Himself One Trust
When you forget to eat, you know you’re alive.
HENRY JAMES

Alive Eat Forget Memory Remember Sharp
You must save what you can of your life; you musn’t lose it all simply because you’ve lost a part.
HENRY JAMES

Because Life Love Must Part Save Simply
And we know that if it is strong, we are stronger, inasmuch as it passes and we remain.
HENRY JAMES

Great Hope Know Remain Strong Stronger
You are good for nothing unless you are clever.
HENRY JAMES

Act Brain Clever Good Knowledge Nothing Unless
Sorrow comes in great waves…but rolls over us, and though it may almost smother us, it leaves us.
HENRY JAMES

Almost Come Great Leave Over Roll Smother Sorrow Us Wave
It is difficult to speak adequately or justly of London. It is not a pleasant place; it is not agreeable, or cheerful, or easy, or exempt from reproach. It is only magnificent.
HENRY JAMES

Adequate Agreeable Cheerful Country Difficult Easy Exempt Justify Magnificent Reproach Speak
To believe in a child is to believe in the Future.
HENRY JAMES

Believe Child Forever Future Hope Love Motivation Trust
Cats and monkeys; monkeys and cats; all human life is there.
HENRY JAMES

Cat Human Lesson Life Money Understand
Try to be one of the people on whom nothing is lost!
HENRY JAMES

Lost Nothing One People Search Try
Never say you know the last word about any human heart.
HENRY JAMES

Heart Human Know Last never Say
Criticism talks a good deal of nonsense, but even its nonsense is a useful force. It keeps the question of art before the world, insists upon its importance.
HENRY JAMES

Criticism Force Good Importance Insist Nonsense Talk Useful
There were several ways of understanding her: there was what she said, and there was what she meant, and there was something between the two, that was neither.
HENRY JAMES

Between Desire Said Several Something Two Understanding Way

Copyright: 2020 - 2023 | Minimalist Quotes