Perfection Quotes
I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.
Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.
The idea which...shuts out the Second Coming from our minds, the idea of the world slowly ripening to perfection, is a myth, not a generalization from experience.
If the physical perfection of childhood could last, what a possesssion it would be for humanity!
She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.
When I was young, I thought confidence could be earned w/ perfection. Now I know that you don't earn it; you claim it.
Total freedom from error is what none of us will allow to our neighbors; however we may be inclined to flirt a little with such spotless perfection ourselves.
As civilization advances, man grows unconscious of the primitive elements of life; he is separated from them by his perfection of material techniques.
It may be in seemingly unimportant things that a man expresses his passion for perfection, yet they will count heavily in the long run.
Sometimes life is about being sad and doing things anyway. Sometimes it's about being hurt and doing things anyway. The point isn't perfection. The point is doing it anyway.
I take my job very seriously and I work the best that I can on every drum that I hit. I want all the drums and cymbals to sound the best. I strive for perfection and I won't take anything less.
I am going for a level of perfection that is only mine... Most of the pleasure is in getting the last little piece perfect.
This has been my most satisfying, my most gratifying, my most content year, and to culminate this way is perfection. (on the Los Angeles Galaxy's 2005 season)
... the world was beautiful, but nobody looked at it except tourists. ... a kind of perfection of existence was always close at hand, and no one reached for it.
I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.
When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.
Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.
The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.
Take perfection and throw it out the window. There's always something you can make better or do differently - strive to IMPROVE, not attain the impossible.
Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.
I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.
Mozart, striving for perfection, wrote the same symphony forty-one times. In his case, it worked. He wrote a perfect symphony.
Similarity of opinion is not always—I think not often—needed for fullness and perfection of love.
Surely the novel should be a form of art - but art was not enough. It must contain not only the perfection of art, but the imperfection of nature.
Sometimes I could quit paint and take to charring. It must be fine to clean perfectly, to shine and polish and know that it could not be done better. In painting that never occurs.
You hit a guitar, you hit a note, you hit a drum, you hit an organ. Meat and potatoes. Simplicity. Not getting too caught up in little tweezers of perfection.
I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.
The manifestation of poetry in external life is formal perfection. True sentiment grows within, and art must represent internal phenomena externally.
Tantra is the perception of the oneness and the perfection of all things. Not just the perception of light, but the perception of darkness, seeing God in both beauty and horror.
If you think you are a vile slime, that means that you aspire to something higher...It's because you have a sense of perfection, and you obviously want that, that you find something wrong.
All the eyes of God are looking through all the stars, or looking at the stars through our eyes. There's only the eye of God everywhere, seeing and being in perfection always.
When you understand dharma, when you see its perfect perfection, shining both in and beyond all things, you will be freed from all misunderstandings.
The yoga of knowledge is the yoga of perfection. It is the end and the beginning of all things.
Eternity gives life to all and sustains all, transforms all on the wheel of dharma - until all attain perfection.
There is no evil, there's no bad; there's no good. These are human ideas. There's no creator, there's no creation; there's no God, there's no nirvana, there's no perfection. These are ideas.
Nirvikalpa samadhi is a state of no mind, beyond the ten thousand states of mind, where there is nothing but perfection, where the self no longer exists...the ego dissolves into immortality.
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your meditation, and to win in all your endeavors so that one day you will complete again.
People who work to bring about perfection see work as an extension of themselves. The point is to do a good job. That will empower you. To do a poor job will make you weaker.
Chaos is everywhere and chaos is wonderful. That's all there really is. There is no today. There is no tomorrow. There is only eternity, perfection, consciousness, power, and light.