Perfection Quotes

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...

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

Trifles make perfection and perfection is no trifle.

After all these months, lying there, unable to move a leg or a foot – how could he find perfection i...

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting ...

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and rend...

True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.

The essence of man is imperfection.

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species.

The very pink of perfection.

I hope, Cecily, I shall not offend you if I state quite frankly and openly that you seem to me to be...

JACKYou're quite perfect, Miss Fairfax.GWENDOLENOh! I hope I am not that. It would leave no room for...

The true perfection of man lies not in what man has, but in what man is.

An educated person's ideas of Art are drwan naturally from what Art has been, whereas the new work o...

God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection.

He is not concerned about making you blessed and happy right now, but He’s continually working out H...

Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and mu...

A good garden may have some weeds.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word-excellence. To know how to do something well is t...

Before we aspire after theoretical perfection in the amelioration of our political state, it is nece...

This gesture is one of the motifs of modernity's turn against the principle of imitating nature, tha...

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

We ought to regard the present state of the universe as the effect of its antecedent state and as th...

Perfection belongs to narrated events, not to those we live.

The eye always fills in the imperfections.

Marriage is the perfection of what love aimed at, ignorant of what it sought.

The intuition of the moral sentiment is an insight of the perfection of the laws of the soul. These ...

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and...

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn i...

Ruskin says that anyone who expects perfection from a work of art knows nothing of works of art. Thi...

A good garden may have some weeds.

Too late, I found you can't wait to become perfect, you got to go out and fall down and get up with ...

We're all fools," said Clemens, "all the time. It's just we're a different kind each day. We think, ...

Perfect, faultless, in ruins, yes, but perfect,nevertheless.

...the greater objective (representative) perfection there is in our idea of a thing, the greater al...

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're a...

We deny the parts of ourselves that we deem unacceptable rather than accepting the fact that we're a...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

Seed Leaves Homage to R. F. Here something stubborn comes,Dislodging the earth crumbsAnd making crus...

Certainly it's a rare glimpse into the lives of the Secular Ancients. They don't seem as bad as the ...

A perfect poem is impossible. Once it has been written the world would end.