Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
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.
~By William Cavendish ~
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
I'm chasing perfection.
~By Kobe Bryant ~
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
~By Adam Jones ~
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~By Maurice Ravel ~
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
But I think Steve's main contribution besides just the pure leadership is his passion for excellence. He's a perfectionist. Good enough isn't good enough. And also his creative spirit. You know he really, really wants to do something great.
~By Andy Hertzfeld ~
The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.
~By Herman Hesse ~
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~By George Orwell ~
But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.
~By Niklaus Wirth ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
Love is friendship that has caught fire. It is quiet understanding, mutual confidence, sharing and forgiving. It is loyalty through good and bad times. It settles for less than perfection and makes allowances for human weaknesses.
~By Ann Landers ~
Classical musicians do this all the time. They want perfection. So they piece things together. Eight bars of this and six bars of that. Glenn Gould said that with a recording he wanted to make perfect versions of pieces.
~By John Abercrombie ~
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~By William Law ~
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
Imperfection clings to a person, and if they wait till they are brushed off entirely, they would spin for ever on their axis, advancing nowhere.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
~By Kim Collins ~
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
~By Mark Crispin Miller ~
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
As a real person, he wouldn't last a minute, would he? But drama is about imperfection. And we've moved away from the aspirational hero. We got tired of it, it was dull. If I was House's friend, I would hate it. How he so resolutely refuses to be happy or take the kind-hearted road. But we don't always like morally good people, do we?
~By Hugh Laurie ~
It's all about perfection, isn't it?
~By Keira Knightley ~
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.
~By John Millington Synge ~
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.
~By Sri Chinmoy ~
In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.
~By Jessie Matthews ~
March on. Do not tarry. To go forward is to move toward perfection. March on, and fear not the thorns, or the sharp stones on life's path.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
~By William Hurt ~
When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.
~By Debra Messing ~
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
~By Nicolas Malebranche ~
To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.
~By Adam Smith ~
There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.
~By Josef Skvorecky ~
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?
~By Richard J. Daley ~
To bear with patience wrongs done to oneself is a mark of perfection, but to bear with patience wrongs done to someone else is a mark of imperfection and even of actual sin.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
The ability to play the clarinet is the ability to overcome the imperfections of the instrument. There's no such thing as a perfect clarinet, never was and never will be.
~By Jack Brymer ~
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
~By James Stephens ~
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
~By Michael Jackson ~
You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.
~By Morris West ~
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.
~By Robert Kirkman ~
God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.
~By Alfred Adler ~
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
~By Serena Williams ~
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
~By Conrad Hall ~
Style is the perfection of a point of view.
~By Richard Eberhart ~
I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.
~By Jim Lampley ~
This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.
~By Saint Augustine ~
Perfectionists are their own devils.
~By Jack Kirby ~
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
~By Andrew Vachss ~
Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
~By Chris Evert ~
Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.
~By Julianne Moore ~
So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.
~By Douglas Sirk ~
The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.
~By Simon Greenleaf ~
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~By Owen Feltham ~
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.
~By Nellie Melba ~
A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
~By Mohandas Gandhi ~
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.
~By Ben Okri ~
A man's felicity consists not in the outward and visible blessing of fortune, but in the inward and unseen perfections and riches of the mind.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
I'm a perfectionist. I need to be needed. I need to do things for a man. But I don't need to do them as much, these days.
~By Jacqueline Bisset ~
I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.
~By Reese Witherspoon ~
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
~By Dick Dale ~
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
~By Philip Sidney ~
To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.
~By Walter Scott ~
Love is the bond of perfection.
~By John Winthrop ~
The heart of the jealous knows the best and most satisfying love, that of the other's bed, where the rival perfects the lover's imperfections.
~By Djuna Barnes ~
Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
~By William Shawn ~
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
~By Samuel McChord Crothers ~
I'm a perfectionist, so I can drive myself mad - and other people, too. At the same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I really care about what I do.
~By Michelle Pfeiffer ~
Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.
~By Lytton Strachey ~
So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born.
~By Edward Dahlberg ~
I have faith in my imperfections!
~By Dana Delany ~
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
~By Albrecht Druer ~
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
~By Jerry Moran ~
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.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.
~By Maimonides ~
In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.
~By Edward Bach ~
But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
Be intent on the perfection of the present day.
~By William Law ~
Father was the eldest son and the heir apparent, and he set the standard for being a Rockefeller very high, so every achievement was taken for granted and perfection was the norm.
~By David Rockefeller ~
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.
~By Anthony Trollope ~
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~By Michelangelo ~
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