A Quote by Douglas Merrill

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

Douglas Merrill

Quote Topics

Attainable Between Difference Excellence First Learn Perfection Second Striving Striving For Excellence Striving For Perfection

Quote Author

Douglas Merrill
Born: 1970

Perfection, fortunately, is not the only alternative to mediocrity. A more sensible alternative is excellence. Striving for excellence is stimulating and rewarding; striving for perfection--in practically anything--is both neurotic and futile.

Ed Bliss

Striving for excellence is a positive quality. Striving for perfection is self-defeating.

Melody Beattie

Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection is demoralizing.

Harriet B. Braiker

And with a few moments like that, with doubt from here and there, and within ourselves we were just striving for excellence. We had somehow understood and felt that all the musicians who would come to the House later on, that all the singers, the big artists, were striving for excellence in their life and we thought a house for them, there’s no limit to the excellence it should have because it should match their strive for perfection

Jørn Utzon

There's no such thing as Perfection. But, in striving for perfection, we can achieve excellence.

Vince Lombardi

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Anton Corbijn

Life is a beautiful thing. But you're always striving to be better in your art, striving to be heard. And obviously in a movie business, it's striving to be noticed and appreciated.

Chris Pine

There are ever two ways of striving to fill one's place in the world: one is by seeking to prove one's self useful; the other, by striving to render one's self useless. The first way is the commoner and the more attractive; the second is the rarer and more noble.

Henry Clay Trumbull

For those who feel it, nothing makes the soul so religious and pure as the endeavor to create something perfect; for God is perfection, and whoever strives after it, is striving after something divine. True painting is only the image of the perfection of God, a shadow of the pencil with which he paints, a melody, a striving after harmony.

Michelangelo

Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.

Laurence Olivier

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

Vince Lombardi

Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best.

Laurence Olivier

Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts.