Perfection Quotes

It's absurd how aspirants to designer-label colleges become obsessed with perfection so they can get into one. I'm not convinced it's worth prostituting yourself for that.

But parents, she supposed, were not the pinnacle of perfection their children thought or expected them to be. They were humans who usually did the best they could but often made the wrong choices.

Originally, each human being is a complete and perfect existence. At the same time, we are each living within the one great, large-scale perfection.

We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.

The gospel is the fulfillment of all hopes, the perfection of all philosophy, the interpretation of all revelation, the key to all the seeming contradictions of the physical and moral world.

Perfection is too high a goal to strive for. Sometimes working hard brings more satisfaction in the end.

The universe has no mind and that's why it can never reach perfection! Perfection is the art of meticulous high-mind!

I used to love ballet and I did it really, really intensely. But it came so much about achieving physical perfection, which when I was 14 was a big deal.

My mother is fine. For me it perfection.

An able reader often discovers in other people's writings perfections beyond those that the author put in or perceived, and lends them richer meanings and aspects.

Some of my best memories are sitting on my dad's lap, cheering on Olga and Nadia, Carl Lewis and others for their brilliance and perfection.

I think sadly in any industry and in any work related environments females always strive to achieve a certain amount of perfection whether they be skinny or pretty. It's constant in our society.

I will never reach perfection.

There was a perfection to the moment that made Sienna think: Yes, this is it. This is who we're meant to be together.

When you have an unconditional love of Life, then you love Life just the way it is showing up, right here, right now. This is only possible when you are "seeing the perfection."

Do not confuse excellence with perfection. The first is possible to achieve, the second is probably not.

There is perfection in the process-and all life arises out of choice.

Perfection is no more a requisite to art than to heroes. Frigidaires are perfect. Beauty limps. My frigidaire has had to be replaced.

It's stupid to expect perfection from bands because afterall they're just human beings.

Book cover, 'Reefer Club' Totalitarianism is when people believe they can punish their way to perfection.

Nobody wants to watch perfection.

Perfection is what we create in our own mind. I prefer the flaw.

You can't do such a lot and do it all so well and have much time left for the ordinary human feelings.

I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection

It's not about perfection. What's a perfect painting? What's interesting about a perfect painting?

Even when we strive for perfection , life is nothing more than an attempt to achieve it through a series of greater or smaller imperfections.

I'm always looking for perfection. Every photographer, in one way or another, if he's serious, is. He ain't ever going to get it. But hope springs eternal.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Young friends, do not hesitate to follow the example of Pedro, who 'pleased God and was loved by him' and who, having come to perfection in so short a time, lived a full life.

A friend of mine says that perfection is a road, not a destination.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

So,would you say I’m closer to a zombie or a vampire? I gotta know—are my parts going to rot and fall off, or am I forever frozen in youthful perfection?

The perfection of yoga is to become detached. And the perfection of detachment is to become completely attached, attached to God.

Whoever we are, wherever we are, however we are, whatever our condition is, there is no impediment to attaining the perfection of life-if we are humble & sincere.

Don't be bothered by perfection. Replace the word 'Perfection' by 'Totality. Totality will give you a different dimension.

You will come closer and closer to perfection, but you will never be perfect. Perfection is not the way of existence. Growth is the way.

Underneath the inharmonious and trivial particulars, is a musical perfection, the Ideal journeying always with us, the heaven without rent or seam.

An action is the perfection and publication of thought. A right action seems to fill the eye, and to be related to all nature.

If perfection is stagnation, then Heaven is a swamp.

I want to reach absolute perfection. And I think I can reach it.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself.

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

Passion drives perfection.

mixing comes natural. i just ought to. not am i mixed to perfection, i have aptitude for art and colors.

It's not that perfection cannot be achieved. It's that it's so hard to stop there.

As any artist can tell you, it is easier to reach perfection than to stop there.

Imperfection means perfection hid.

The hope of science is the perfection of the human race. The hope of theology is the salvation of a few, and the damnation of almost everybody.

Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!

It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.