Perfection Quotes

There is a perfection in everything that cannot be owned.

Djuna had wanted a life of desire and freedom, not luxury but beauty, not security but fulfillment, ...

My wife with the hair of a wood fireWith the thoughts of heat lightningWith the waist of an hourglas...

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or betw...

A finished person is a boring person.

The Author To Her BookThou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,Who after birth did'st by my side...

There is perfect love in Heaven!

And so you prefer her faults to other people’s perfections?

Perfectionism means that you try not to leave so much mess to clean up. But clutter and mess show us...

There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or...

A young woman stood before the railing, speaking to the reception clerk. Her slender body seemed out...

...Is it an inspiring sight to see a man commit a heroic gesture, and then learn that he goes to vau...

His face was like a law of nature—a thing one could not question, alter or implore. It had high chee...

A perfect character might be attended with the inconvenience of being envied and hated; and that a b...

You're only human you're supposed to make mistakes.

Jerry: Oh, you don't understand, Osgood! Ehhhh... I'm a man.Osgood: Well, nobody's perfect.

Who are you to judge the life I live?I know I'm not perfect-and I don't live to be-but before you st...

Love hard when there is love to be had. Because perfect guys don’t exist, but there’s always one guy...

Perfect order is the forerunner of perfect horror.

Jesus take the wheelTake it from my handsCause I can't do this on my ownI'm letting goSo give me one...

The unqualified truth is, that when I loved Estella with the love of a man, I loved her simply becau...

. . . still we are none of us perfect . . .

What after all is a halo? It's only one more thing to keep clean.

Within these strangely specific conditions, everything is perfect. We are perfect.

I asked if Tyler was an artist. Tyler shrugged...What Tyler had created was the shadow of a giant ha...

One minute was enough, Tyler said, "A person had to work hard for it, but a minute of perfection was...

I'm not perfect but I'll be the creator of perfection.

Perfection in anything is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

It is failure that guides evolution; perfection provides no incentive for improvement, and nothing i...

People are good or half good or a quarter good, and it changes all the time- but even on the best da...

I like what I do. Some writers have said in print that they hated writing and it was just a chore an...

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

You know, the whole thing about perfectionism. The perfectionism is very dangerous. Because of cours...

I have no faith in human perfectibility. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect...

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a pa...

When something has been perfect there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.

We must understand the need for perfectionism is a corrosive waste of time, because nothing is ever ...

At some point, you really just have to finish your work and release it as is-if only so you can go o...

Your treasure - your perfection - is within you already. But to claim it, you must leave the busy co...

Italian men are beautiful in the same way as French women, which is to say - no detail spared in the...

We two make banquets of the plainest fareIn every cup we find the thrill of pleasure... For us life ...

At that moment the universe appeared to me a vast machine constructed only to produce evil. I almost...

It was examinations (in school) that drove my wits away, as all emergencies do. Being expected to me...

There would be no need for love if perfection were possible. Love arises from our imperfection, from...

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I don't like a man to be too efficient. He's likely to be not human enough.

... a thing can only live through a pious illusion.

My world has just become perfect, midnight is also noonday, pain is also joy, a curse is also a bles...

Excellence encourages one about life generally it shows the spiritual wealth of the world.

Whence it follows that God is absolutely perfect, since perfection is nothing but magnitude of posit...

In the end, perfection is just a concept - an impossibility we use to torture ourselves and that con...

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

The "C" students run the world.

Perfection lies in fullness of journey. For this reason, never think you have arrived. Forget what l...

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they kn...

A dense, artistic kind of imperfection stimulates your consciousness, keeps you alert. If I listen t...

Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen...

When we do the best that we can we never know what miracle is wrought in our life or in the life o...

I do think imperfection is underrated

Imperfection is underrated. Perfection is overrated.

If we would aim at perfection in any thing, simplicity must not be overlooked.

You are beautiful like demolition. Just the thought of you draws my knuckles white. I don’t need a g...

Give me one manfrom among ten thousandif he is the best

The world, my friend Govinda, is not imperfect, or on a slow path towards perfection: no, it is perf...

There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wis...

A concern with the perfectibility of mankind is always a symptom of thwarted or perverted developmen...

Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.

If you are truly convinced that there is some solution to all human problems, that one can conceive ...

I, on the contrary, have been convinced for some time that perfection is not produced except margina...

...and for a great deal it seemed good to him, for in the music there were no flaws.

You behold in me, Stephen said with grim displeasure, a horrible example of free thought.He walked o...

I am not strong on perfection.

How much more reasonable is it to say with the sage Plato, that the perfect happiness of a state con...

The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

At times failure is very necessary for the artist. It reminds him that failure is not the ultimate d...

Sometimes to return is a vulgarity.

And observe, you are put to stern choice in this matter. You must either make a tool of the creature...

Don't mistake activity with achievement.

We spend our lives waiting for our book and it never comes.

Marvellous!" he repeated, looking up at me. "Look! The beauty--but that is nothing--look at the accu...

Perfection is the child of time.

A perfectly normal person is rare in our civilization.

The woman is the most perfect doll that i have dressed with delight and admiration.

It is true that a mathematician who is not somewhat of a poet, will never be a perfect mathematician...

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path...

Perfect, complete, needing nothing, simply all there was, was the dark.

Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause ...

If you look for perfection, you'll never be content.

Ring the bells that still can ring Forget your perfect offering There is a crack in everything That'...

Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me not expecting perfection all in ...

If you're looking for perfection look in the mirror. If you find it there expect it elsewhere.

I don't love Photoshop; I like imperfection. It doesn't mean ugly. I love a girl with a gap between ...

Perfection of character is this: to live each day as if it were your last, without frenzy, without a...

Perfection exacts a price, but it's the imperfect who pay it

You just have to learn not to care about the dust mites under the beds.

A new idea is rarely born like Venus attended by graces. More commonly it's modeled of baling wire a...

Perfect grammar--persistent, continuous, sustained--is the fourth dimension, so to speak: many have ...

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of ...

Truth is immortal error is mortal.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to Th...