“Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.”
“My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.”
The Rolling Stone Interview: Bob Dylan http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/bob-dylan-talks-a-raw-and-extensive-first-rolling-stone-interview-19691129 (29 November 1969)
“My donors have always tended to do much better than expected.”
Source: Never Let Me Go (2005), Chapter 1, p. 3
“If you're always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.”
Variant: If you’re always on time, it implies that you never have anything better you should be doing.
Source: Mistborn: The Final Empire
“Always give your best and try to figure out how to do an even better job.”
Source: Think Big (1996), p. 90
As quoted in "AP Interview: Chinese editor Hu Shuli steps aside, not down" in Associated Press (30 January 2018) https://apnews.com/article/china-censorship-business-international-news-asia-pacific-d1f0e45181c64cd0b1a978842a81affa
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: Always dream and shoot higher than you know you can do. Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. An artist is a creature driven by demons. He don’t know why they choose him and he’s usually too busy to wonder why. He is completely amoral in that he will rob, borrow, beg, or steal from anybody and everybody to get the work done.
Source: As quoted in "In conversation with Kate Bush" by Elio Iannacci in MacLeans (28 November 2016) https://www.macleans.ca/culture/arts/in-conversation-with-kate-bush/
