Perfection Quotes

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

We strivin' for perfection.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

If I waited for perfection... I would never write a word.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

I don't see in myself any perfection.

I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection.

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

I'm somewhat of a perfectionist, I think, and I strive for perfection.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

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

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

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

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

I expect perfection from myself.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

Perfection itself is imperfection.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

I am not strong on perfection.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

Tech Jacket shares the same tone as Invincible, but the subject matter is very different. Where Invincible is about perfection, Tech Jacket is about flaws.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

I feel like every role you take, there's a part of you that obviously feels like you can do it. I don't know if perfect is the right word because I don't believe in perfection. I don't think it exists.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

It is absurd to look for perfection.