Iris Murdoch Quote

I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.

Michelle Pfeiffer

• Perfection

It's a waste of time for people to say things they think other people want to hear, or try and come off in a certain way. I try to be as honest as I can.

Gwyneth Paltrow

Movie directors, or should I say people who create things, are very greedy and they can never be satisfied... That's why they can keep on working. I've been able to work for so long because I think next time, I'll make something good.

Akira Kurosawa

I never think at all when I write. Nobody can do two things at the same time and do them both well.

Horace

I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.

Ursula Andress

• Time

If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done.

Bruce Lee

• Time
• Thinking

The good of other times let people state; I think it lucky I was born so late.

Ovid

You have to look out for becoming trapped in a place where people want to see you all the time doing one thing.

Lucy Liu

So people think I've been lying about my age all this time, It's the records that are wrong. I've never once told anyone how old I am.

Calista Flockhart

I think Russian people are learning that democracy is not an alien thing; it's not a western invention.

Garry Kasparov

And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about.

Roger Penrose

And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief is that in life people will take you at your own reckoning.

Isaac Asimov

• Self-discovery
• Belief

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

Roger Penrose

The way, I think, anything has ever really changed on this planet is through large groups of very ordinary people saying something finally.

Emma Thompson

I really feel sorry for people who are, who divide their whole life up into 'things that I like' and 'things that I must do.' You're only here for a short time, mate. Learn to like it.

Russell Crowe

I think Shrek makes an effect in older people. And there are many things in the movie that you saw that are not for kids. Kids would not understand certain things.

Antonio Banderas

The reason it has relevance is because I, as a popular Arab personality - the Arab people like me and respect me - thought it was time for me to make an ever so tiny statement about what I thought about this whole thing.

Omar Sharif

I design for real people. I think of our customers all the time. There is no virtue whatsoever in creating clothing or accessories that are not practical.

Giorgio Armani

• Virtue

No. I mean those people really did something for designers I don't think department stores can, could or should do still today. Today the world is different so you have to make it differently. There's TV. There's a lot of things.

Karl Lagerfeld

Here in the big city people spend their time thinking about work and about money; they don't give some value to friendships and it can be depressing.

Adriana Lima

• Friendship
• Thinking