Perfection Quotes

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

Society is indeed a contract. ... It is a partnership in all science; a partnership in all art; a partnership in every virtue, and in all perfection.

Not in the knowledge of things without, but in the perfection of the soul within, lies the empire of man aspiring to be more than man.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.

Perfection is really boring!

If God be infinitely holy, just, and good, He must take delight in those creatures that resemble Him most in these perfections.

Even women are perfect at the outset.

The noble woman is half a man, even a complete one. Only their imperfections make them women.

Two possibilities: making oneself infinitely small or being so. The second is perfection, that is to say, inactivity, the first is beginning, that is to say, action.

Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead.

The habit of looking for beauty in everything makes us notice the shortcomings of things, our sense, hungry for complete satisfaction, misses the perfection it demands.

There's this whole idea of perfection. What young girls don't realize is that these girls do have problems. It's good for people to realize everyone is human.

Holy writing must strive (by all means) for perfection and true holiness, that a door may be opened to him in heaven.

The soul, Advancing ever to the source of light And all perfection, lives, adores, and reigns In cloudless knowledge, purity, and bliss.

I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.

It is always some illusion that creates disillusion, especially in the young, for whom the only alternative to perfection is cynicism.

This toxic striving for perfection is a female thing. How many men obsess about being perfect? For men, generally, good enough is good enough.

Bandara was not an easy place to return to: it could hide from the common worlds whose periphery it inhabited. But Bandara never had, in all its years, completely disappeared.

I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Koons's work has always stood apart for its one-at-a-time perfection, epic theatricality, a corrupted, almost sick drive for purification, and an obsession with traditional artistic values.

Both the artist and the lover know that perfection is not loveable. It is the clumsiness of a fault that makes a person lovable.

Beauty with character ages better than perfection.

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

We know of our own knowledge that we are human beings, and, as such, imperfect. But we are bathed by the communications industry in a ceaseless tide of inhuman, impossible perfection.

Few things are worth doing perfectly.

Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Jesus took your punishment, and God gave you credit for Jesus' perfection.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

It is an absolute perfection and virtually divine to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

How could he find perfection in such an average day? Then I realized this was the whole point.

Women see faults much more readily in each other than they can discover perfections.

One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Where is perfection? Where I cannot reach.

We must know when to move on. To search too long for perfection can also paralyse.

Numbers are limits, and perfection doesn't have limits.

I'm quite proud of my rear... I don't obsess over my flaws, because I see my body as a whole. Besides, I think men appreciate confidence more than perfection.

Each man is perfect by his nature; prophets have manifested this perfection, but it is potential in us.

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

Every individual has in himself perfection. It lies within the dark recesses of his physical being.

[Perfection] is only possible if the mind of man is changed, if he, of his own sweet will, changes his mind; and the great difficulty is, neither can he force his own mind.

We cannot possess the truth fully until it has entered into the very substance of our life by good habits, and by a certain perfection of moral activity.

I think I would have written five times as much as I've written if I didn't have this terrible sense of perfection.

Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

I happen to think we’ve set our ideal on the wrong objects; I happen to think that the greatest ideal man can set before himself is self-perfection.

If you are unwell, don't ask to be healed, instead ask to be restored to that perfection from which you emanated.

Gough never pretended to perfection or to sainthood - well, hardly ever. Although when he set off the metal detector at airport security, he would blame his aura.