Perfect Is The Enemy Quotes

#1. 'Perfect' is the enemy of 'good enough'.

Meg Whitman

#2. The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Voltaire

#3. Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien. (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)

Voltaire

#4. Voltaire wrote, The perfect is the enemy of the good.

Anonymous

#5. Perfect is the enemy of good.

Voltaire

#6. Perfect is the enemy of done.

Catherine Carrigan

#7. Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

Rob Sheffield

#8. One of the surest ways of forming good combinations in war would be to order movements only after obtaining perfect information of the enemy's proceedings. In fact, how can any man say what he should do himself; if he is ignorant what his adversary is about?

Antoine-Henri Jomini

#9. That Islam you see on TV does not represent me,
I'm too busy waging jihad against myself,
My own nafs are my enemy.
I'm sorry that Muslim and Muslim lands do not represent Islam,
Our religion is perfect, but we on the other hand ...

Boonaa Mohammed

#10. Embrace what makes you unique, even if it makes others uncomfortable. i didn't have to become perfect because I've learned throughout my journey that perfection is the enemy of greatness.

Janelle Monae

#11. We're programmed to believe that time is the enemy, that it takes away from us or that it diminishes us. I have found that it's done the opposite to me. Life is in perfect balance. It's just that our perception of it isn't.

Queen Rania Of Jordan

#12. My job to the Muslim world is to communicate that the Americans are not your enemy. We sometimes make mistakes. We have not been perfect.

Barack Obama

#13. There's no worse enemy and no better friend than a brother, Tuan, for one brother knows another, and in perfect knowledge is strength for good or evil.

Joseph Conrad

#14. The perfect society to which we aspire in theory may become a powerful enemy of the good society we can become in fact.

Mark Sagoff

#15. The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect plan.

Carl Von Clausewitz

#16. Nothing frightens the 'Jews' more than a perfect unity in others: the unity of feeling in a movement, in a people. That is why they will always be for 'democracy' which has but one advantage, and that one for the nation's enemy. For democracy will break up the unity and spirit of a people ...

Corneliu Zelea Codreanu

#17. People work around you and next to you and the universe waits for the perfect time to whisper in your ear, "Look this way." There is someone in your life right now who may end up being your enemy, your wife, or your boss. Lift up your head and you may notice.

Amy Poehler

#18. This was perfect dictator-logic: we investigate you, therefore you are an enemy.

Anna Funder

#19. The writer Rebecca Solnit puts it well: "So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun." Perfectionism

Elizabeth Gilbert

#20. So many of us believe in perfection, which ruins everything else, because the perfect is not only the enemy of the good; it's also the enemy of the realistic, the possible, and the fun.

Elizabeth Gilbert

#21. In fact, I would say that the demand for the perfect is the greatest enemy of the good.

Richard Rohr

#22. An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to complete the thing and make it perfect.

Mark Twain

#23. Perfect replication is the enemy of any robust system ... Lacking a central nervous system - much less a brain - the parasite is a simple system designed to compromise a very specific target host. The more uniform the host, the more effective the infestation.

Daniel Suarez

#24. Consistency is important in keeping a habit going. Don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good. Don't even let the good be the enemy of the just barely okay.

Daria Sockey

#25. If it had been a great necessity, if it had been contingents of an army meeting to overwhelm the enemy by stealth, it might not have worked out so neatly. But fate it would seem is a perfect strategist and will work miracles of timing to assist our destruction.

Sebastian Barry

#26. How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in the right direction from becoming a stopping point? How do we get beyond shades of insipid light green?

Donella Meadows