Arthur Machen Quotes

90% of every art form is garbage - dance and stand-up, painting and music. Focus on the 10% that's good, suck it up, and drive on.

What my father especially taught me was to not always take the safe road, the easy road. If you are going to do good work, you have to risk failing badly.

It is better to do too much than to do too little.

If you don't have those moments where you go too far, then you're probably not going far enough.

Go for the gold: better one great column and some undistinguished ones than constant mediocrity.

Everyone's terrified of being mediocre. Everyone wants to be special.

If you're not making some mistakes, it probably means you're not trying hard enough.

I don't think anything less than perfect, even though I'm a human being. The way I work and go at things is to better myself in perfect terms.

Commit yourself to quality from day one... it's better to do nothing at all than to do something badly.

I don't aim for perfection. But I do want to try and come up with something interesting.

I really do believe that if you don't challenge yourself and risk failing, that it's not interesting.

When I entered films, I rose to the top. In business, too, I want to be at the top.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

If you don't occasionally make a mistake, you aren't trying hard enough.

Good is often the enemy of best.

I'd rather do a really good small part than a really bad big part.

Do what is beyond your strength even should you fail sometimes.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

If there ever is a struggle, making a good movie will always supersede the need to be noble.

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I'm trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don't want to have regrets or excuses or think, 'I can do better next time.'

Pursuit of perfection is futile. Instead, I prioritize and often realize goals or tasks I've been aiming for just aren't that important.

I take risks sometimes, and it's not the best choice. I have to take that kind of risk to become one of the best players in the world. If that's what I want to be, I cannot just play simple.

I'd rather have one gold medal and 10 caps than 200 caps and no gold.

I always say if you're not failing, you're not trying.

I'm an actor, so I'm never going to feel like I've done enough.