Quotes About Fulfillment

I live the perfect life.

Don't you know that every perfect life would mean the end of art?

In my perfect world, I get to be a professional musician and still go to Trader Joe's.

I find my greatest happiness in thinking of those days in Homestead when I labored to bring a thing to perfection entirely by myself. In the evenings, I would go into the hills and look down on my work, and I knew that it was good, and my heart was elated.

I know as soon as a game is finished if I have done well. I don't need people to tell me. I want to achieve perfection.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

I always felt like I had a job to do and that means you have to perform to perfection.

What people don't realize is that I've been trying to get to Bethlehem since I was four years old. By that, I mean I've been trying to attain perfection since I was kid. And it took me more than 40 years to learn that it wasn't going to happen.

I'm a perfectionist, and to actually finish something is good for me.

There's this idea that you can have it all, but in my opinion, you can't - not if you're a perfectionist.

I'm a perfectionist. I want everything done right. When it's not done right, I'm not happy.

I work very hard at relationships. I've done the thing of being home. I worked all day and came home and did all the stuff at home that a woman is supposed to do, the cooking and the entertaining. I'm a perfectionist, and, besides, I loved all those things.

I'm perfectly fine now if I never went on stage again.

Now, I am perfectly willing to just enjoy my career by choosing roles simply because I consider them to be a challenge and doing the best possible job I can.

There must have been something in my nature - I believe, with all my heart, that I have conquered it now - which prevented me from being perfectly happy or making a woman perfectly happy.

Fortunately, now I've got myself in a position where things are about story and not money. In my earlier career, it was more about getting my foot in the door and to get enough money to live, to be perfectly honest.

On my death bed, I'm not going to say, 'God I wish I did more movies.' I'm perfectly happy I was present for the ones I did.

When I get to do whatever I want, I'm perfectly happy. I've found that the best scenario is that I just do what I do, and if somebody wants to be part of it, they should work as a conduit for what vision I have. They should help me complete the universe.

It's better to do your purpose imperfectly than to do someone else's purpose perfectly.

I cannot with any real integrity perform songs I've done for 25 years. I don't need the money. What I need is to feel that I am not letting myself down as an artist and that I still have something to contribute.

I'm so grateful for everything that's happened. I love my work. People have such hurdles - I just wanted to perform, and I wanted my parents to be proud, and they were proud.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

The joy of doing well as a batsman for your country is much more than that little joy of going for a party and enjoying music. It is a completely different high, and I get high by performances. That's what I enjoy now.