#reach

I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence I can reach for; perfection is God's business. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#business #careful #confuse #excellence #god

Between parts I was too old for and roles that were too overwhelming, out of reach then for my voice. I carved out a niche with the Wagnerian repertoire since I am attracted by its theatrical intensity. ↗

— Placido Domingo

#attracted #between #carved #i #i am

Despite the success cult, men are most deeply moved not by the reaching of the goal but by the grandness of the effort involved in getting there - or failing to get there. ↗

— Max Lerner

#deeply #despite #effort #failing #get

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached. ↗

— David Frum

#cared #conclusions #how #more #mother

Songs like Reach and S Club Party are pop classics. I'm really proud that I had a part in them. ↗

— Rachel Stevens

#club #had #i #like #part

The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort. ↗

— Felix Frankfurter

#inevitable #mode #reached #which

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#enough #fools #honest #practice #to be honest

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#doing #excellence #i #i am #kind

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. ↗

— Gottfried Leibniz

#found #ideas #into #necessary #ones

If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience. ↗

— Jack Lemmon

#actor #audience #emotional #emotionally #front