Dan Miller Quotes

Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

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• I throw ideas out into the open when I really should just be writing them down in a journal.

  

  Dan Deacon
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  • Down

• I kind of found a niche for myself after 'Firefly'. I found something that I enjoyed doing and that I did well, but as far as how I seek out a part, it's always different. It's always something that lights you on fire when you read it. It might be just one scene, it might be one line that defines the character for you.

  

  Nathan Fillion
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  • Character
  • Myself

• There is no problem that is not improved by effort, and no effort that is too paltry to be worth undertaking.

  

  Sam Waterston
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• You see, God helps only people who work hard. That principle is very clear.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
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• We need to fight to prove to people that it is possible to form an E.U. migration policy that is in line with the Hungarian national interest.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • People
  • Fight
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• I will come up with a project that will wipe out poverty in the Philippines in two years. I want to remove the people from economic crisis by using the Marcos wealth. Long after I'm gone, people will remember me for building them homes and roads and hospitals and giving them food.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• You can run, run, run away from a lot of things in life, but you can't run away from yourself. And the key to happiness is to understand and accept who you are.

  

  Dale Archer
  • Life
  • Happiness
  • Yourself

• Theater owners are exerting a lot of power over the studios to withhold access to content that people want to see. That's bad for consumers, that's bad for studios, and ultimately, I think it will be bad for theaters.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • People
  • Power
  • Bad

• Class struggle: external peace, international solidarity, peace among peoples. This is the sacred slogan of international socialist democracy that liberates nations.

  

  Karl Liebknecht
  • Peace
  • Democracy
  • Struggle

• When my daughter Zulekha was born, I was at the pinnacle of my working life as a model, and I pulled myself in two trying to cope with being both a mother and a career girl.

  

  Iman
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Mother

• I am really passionate about my career and my music and I am so lucky to be able to do what I do for a job, so for all the early morning starts and long days, I could never trade it all in.

  

  Rachel Stevens
  • Music
  • Long
  • Job

• Closed.

  

  Yogi Berra

• I came to Venice for the first time in 1968 and was lucky enough to make the acquaintanceship, and then the friendship, of two Venetians, Roberta and Franco, who remain my best friends here after almost 50 years.

  

  Donna Leon
  • Time
  • Friends
  • Friendship

• During the early stages of an industry, when the functionality and reliability of a product isn't yet adequate to meet customer's needs, a proprietary solution is almost always the right solution - because it allows you to knit all the pieces together in an optimized way.

  

  Clayton Christensen
  • Together

• Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry for something flawed and of-the-flesh.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • High
  • Feeling
  • Italian

• As an actor, you can go in, and you give your best performance, but if you hand that performance to ten different directors and ten different editors, you get ten different movies.

  

  James Marsden
  • Different
  • Hand

• I've never felt that I was less of an athlete or not accomplished athletically because I didn't win an Olympic medal. It's definitely something I would have liked to have added to my resume, but at the same time I think I can look back at my athletic career and feel that I was one of the best.

  

  Mary Decker
  • Time
  • Career
  • Athlete

• Let me put it this way: I think Republicans tend to keep the ball in play, Democrats go for broke.

  

  Arthur Ashe
  • Way
  • Republicans
  • Democrats

• One of Pixar's key mechanisms is the Braintrust, which we rely on to push us toward excellence and to root out mediocrity. It is our primary delivery system for straight talk.

  

  Ed Catmull
  • Excellence

• The best thing you can do for someone is make them a beautiful plate of food. How else can you invade someone's body without actually touching them?

  

  Padma Lakshmi
  • Beautiful
  • Food
  • Best

• At present I am using a good sized bedroom in the 2 bedroom house here as a studio, and it is large enough to step back from my canvases, and has a good north light. It should serve very well until I can afford to have the storeroom half of the back building lined and insulated and a chimney put in. That may be in about two years.

  

  E. J. Hughes
  • Good
  • May
  • House

• You don't really think The Terminator exists, but you want him to exist.

  

  Dean Winters
  • Thinking
  • Want
  • Terminator

• Perfectionism is not as much the desire for excellence, as it is the fear of failure couched in procrastination .

  

  Dan Miller
  • Excellence
  • Procrastination
  • Perfectionism