Perfection Quotes
There is nothing that isn't perfect, the only reason we don't see that perfection constantly is because we lack humility.
It is the witness still of excellency to put a strange face on his own perfection.
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
The best painters, as they progress in reputation and towards perfection, are found to dispense more and more with the technique of the art, for simpler methods. Simplicity never fails to charm.
To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.
How happy is it for us, that the admiration of others should depend so much more on their ignorance than our perfection!
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
What's come to perfection perishes. Things learned on earth we shall practice in heaven; Works done least rapidly Art most cherishes.
If there is a good and wise God, then there also exists a progress of humanity toward perfection.
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well.
The pulpit and the optimist are always talking about the human race's steady march toward ultimate perfection. As usual, they leave out the statistics. It is the pulpit's way - the optimist's way.
Adjusting to the requirement for perfection is, I think, the most difficult part of learning to program.
His beauty did not blaze like Will's did in fierce colors and repressed fire, but it had its own muted perfection, the loveliness of snow falling against a silver gray sky.
How many things by season seasoned are To their right praise and true perfection!
My fabulous architect godfather and mentor told me once that striving toward a goal - or perfection - gives one focus and direction, which is a helluva lot better than chasing one's tail.
Indeed, some kitsch seems to be flawed by its very perfection, its technical virtuosity and its precise execution, its explicit knowledge of the tradition
That alliance may be said to have a double tie, where the minds are united as well as the body; and the union will have all its strength when both the links are in perfection together.
When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.
He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.
Perfection is the measure of heaven, and the wish to be perfect the measure of man.
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
My life hasn't been perfect, yet I've never wasted my time envying anyone else. If something wasn't the best it could be - I made it better.
Sometimes I think evil is a tangible thing - with wave lengths, just as sound and light have.
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more.
I love my enemies for two reasons: they inspire me to recognise my weakness. They also inspire me to perfect my imperfect nature.
There must be something wrong with those people who think Audrey Hepburn doesn’t perspire, hiccup or sneeze, because they know that’s not true. I n fact, I hiccup more than most.
The biggest thing for women to keep in mind is you can't ever let someone define beauty for you. Look in the mirror and say that this is my definition of perfection.
Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
We put this 15-year old girl on the cover of a fashion magazine, and tell everyone she is the epitome of sexual perfection, but we jail anyone who touches her for another three years.
We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.
Everything is unfolding perfectly. As this perfection unfolds, I learn and grow and become all I'm becoming.
A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.
Nature never wears a mean appearance. Neither does the wisest man extort her secret, and lose his curiosity by finding out all her perfection.
To do evil for good is human corruption; to do good for good is civil retribution; but to do good for evil is Christian perfection. Though this be not the grace of nature, it is the nature of grace.
Don't strive for perfection. It doesn't exist. Strive for a better you. That's always in reach.
I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well