"But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off."

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Lionel Shriver

#Stuff Quotes #Perfectionist Quotes #Made Quotes

“I wish to use the words of Justice Brandeis dissenting in Olmstead to speak for me. He wrote, 'Our government is the potent, the omnipresent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example.'”
“Daphne Guinness, who makes couture seem wearable, is an icon who influences what I wear.”
“Write it. Shoot it. Publish it. Crochet it, sautÃ© it, whatever. MAKE.”
“I used to be a chemical-engineering student, but I started studying acting, and I went for a cattle call, up against hundreds of people. They tore me down because I was too tall. They said "How tall are you?" "6'5"." "Next.”
“Will customers keep supporting the enormous overhead required to sustain ineffectual, unproductive stock picking across an array of thousands of individual funds devoted to every investing 'style' and economic sector or regional subgroup that some marketing idiot can dream up? Not likely. A brutal shakeout is coming and one of its revelations will be that stock picking is a grossly overrated piece of the puzzle, that cost control is what distinguishes a competitive firm from an uncompetitive one.”
“I thought I would try my hand at sailing. It was too small and kept sinking, so I decided to try a boat instead.”

Source : "Moby (No Last Name Given)". Book by Arthur M. Jolly, 2014.
“Escape through travel works. Almost from the moment I boarded my flight, life in England became meaningless. Seat-belt signs lit up, problems switched off. Broken armrests took precedence over broken hearts. By the time the plane was airborne I'd forgotten England even existed.”

Source : Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.92, Penguin
“I have a Volvo S60R and its a pretty fast car, the R says it all.”

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