Garrison Wynn Quotes

Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

Garrison Wynn

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• I was always an avid reader of books. My vocabulary, my English are all thanks to that reading habit. Reading keeps me grounded. I came from a very middle class family – poor, in fact.

  

  Madhur Bhandarkar
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Habit

• The Hindu nationalists see a religion near perfection save for the tampering of Muslims and Christians. So they fall upon these groups, rather than try to reform their own practices by drawing on India's sophisticated philosophical traditions.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Fall
  • Religion
  • Drawing

• Yes, gymnasts aim for perfection, but I never thought about the score. If that's what's in your mind, it will probably mess you up.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Thought

• You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success - none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Success
  • Perfection
  • Esteem

• I'm concerned about - the oppression of the poor.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Poor
  • Concerned
  • Oppression

• Without frugality none can be rich, and with it very few would be poor.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Rich
  • Poor
  • Without

• Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

  

  Walter Scott
  • Life
  • Reason
  • Perfection

• It's hard being black. You ever been black? I was black once - when I was poor.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Black
  • You
  • Poor

• In Divine unity and the affirmation of it, Divine beauty and dominical perfection become apparent. If there was no unity, that pre-eternal treasury would remain hidden.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beauty
  • Unity
  • Perfection

• It is the poor man who'll ever count his flock.

  

  Ovid
  • Man
  • Poor
  • Poor Man

• You're not looking for perfection in your partner. Perfection is all about the ego. With soulmate love, you know that true love is what happens when disappointment sets in - and you're willing to deal maturely with these disappointments.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Love
  • True
  • Ego

• Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance. She is a veil, rather than a mirror.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Perfection
  • Judged

• They got money for wars, but can't feed the poor.

  

  Tupac Shakur
  • Money
  • Poor
  • Wars

• You see, when a blind beetle crawls over the surface of a globe he doesn't notice that the track he has covered is curved. I was lucky enough to have spotted it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Enough
  • See
  • Lucky

• Well when I was young, actually not just me, but we were all poor. Korea used to be one of the poorest countries in the world. Despite such circumstances, I was very, very fortunate to be blessed with having parents who always instilled in a spirit of can-do spirit.

  

  Lee Myung-bak
  • World
  • Parents
  • Blessed

• Let me not be afraid to defend the weak because of the anger of the strong, nor afraid to defend the poor because of the anger of the rich.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Strong
  • Poor
  • Afraid

• I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

  

  Andrew Vachss
  • Perfection
  • Pursuit
  • Pursuit Of Perfection

• I did not believe what I was told about being poor and black and female in Mississippi in 1954.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Poor

• The capitalist system is about taking from the Earth and from the other great commodity, labour. What's happening with this system is that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer, and the only way out of it is supposed to be growth. But growth is debt. It's going to make the situation worse.

  

  Vivienne Westwood
  • Earth
  • Growth
  • Poor

• When you don't talk down to your audience, then they can grow with you. I give them a lot of credit to be able to hang with me this long, because I've gone through a lot of changes, but they've allowed me to grow, and thus we can tackle some serious subjects and try to just be better human beings, all of us.

  

  Prince
  • Audience
  • Changes
  • Credit

• They set great store by their gardens . . . Their studie and deligence herein commeth not only of pleasure, but also of a certain strife and contention . . . concerning the trimming, husbanding, and furnishing of their gardens; everye man or his owne parte.

  

  Thomas More
  • Pleasure
  • Garden
  • Certain

• Shane was silent a moment, then let out a long breath. "I bet I could convince you if I could get through these bars. . . ." "You'd get arrested all over again." "Well, you're just that tempting. Jailbait." He kissed her fingers, which made her shiver all over; his lips lingered warm on her skin, reminding her of what it felt like to be alone with him, in that timeless...

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Long
  • Alone
  • Moment

• I am an expert in the 'art of the possible.'

  

  Sarah Brightman
  • Art
  • Expert

• Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!

  

  Garrison Wynn
  • Poor
  • Perfection
  • Track