“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
What does it mean to be the best? These quotes tackle excellence, personal bests, peak performance, and the drive to push past good enough. Some are about competition, others about the quieter pursuit of doing your finest work when nobody is watching.
“The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.”
“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
“To wear your heart on your sleeve isn't a very good plan you should wear it inside, where it functions best.”
“Sometimes you feel awkward being what you're best at, you feel like you have to be something new.”
“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one.”
“Focused. I'm a hustler. And my hustle is trying to figure out the best ways to do what I like without having to do much else.”
“And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others.”
“There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible.”
“I'm married to my best friend!”
“No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition.”
“Don't despair too much if you see beautiful things destroyed, if you see them perish. Because the best things are always growing in secret.”
“As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody says: 'You were voted the world's sexiest man,' I have no idea what that means. How do I respond? 'Thank you' is the best you can do. George Clooney is the world's sexiest man, anyway.”
“People drain me, even the closest of friends, and I find loneliness to be the best state in the union to live in.”
“There is only one failure in life possible, and that is not to be true to the best one knows.”
“Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.”
“This Halloween, the most popular mask is the Arnold Schwarzenegger mask. And the best part? With a mouth full of candy you will sound just like him.”