Love is the bond of perfection.
~By John Winthrop ~
Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.
~By Henri Frederic Amiel ~
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
~By Dick Dale ~
The Word of God well understood and religiously obeyed is the shortest route to spiritual perfection. And we must not select a few favorite passages to the exclusion of others. Nothing less than a whole Bible can make a whole Christian.
~By Aiden Wilson Tozer ~
When I think of art I think of beauty. Beauty is the mystery of life. It is not in the eye it is in the mind. In our minds there is awareness of perfection.
~By Agnes Martin ~
A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.
~By Joseph Addison ~
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
~By Marilu Henner ~
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~By Owen Feltham ~
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.
~By David Hume ~
I've been called many names like perfectionist, difficult and obsessive. I think it takes obsession, takes searching for the details for any artist to be good.
~By Barbra Streisand ~
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.
~By Edsger Dijkstra ~
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 ~
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
~By Philip Sidney ~
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
~By Jonas Salk ~
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
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 ~
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 ~
Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.
~By Kevyn Aucoin ~
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 ~
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 ~
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
I'm a perfectionist.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
Learning gives us a fuller conviction of the imperfections of our nature; which one would think, might dispose us to modesty.
~By Jeremy Collier ~
People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.
~By Paul Simon ~
For love is a willful stirring of our thoughts unto God, so that it receive nothing that is against the love of Jesus Christ, and therewith that it be lasting in sweetness of devotion; and that is the perfection of this life.
~By Richard Rolle ~
Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.
~By Albert Schweitzer ~
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
There is a passion for perfection which you will rarely see fully developed; but you may note this fact, that in successful lives it is never wholly lacking.
~By Bliss Carman ~
I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
~By Serena Williams ~
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 ~
My ambition is peace and perfection.
~By DeForest Kelley ~
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
~By Albert Einstein ~
Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.
~By Vince Lombardi ~
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
~By Henri Coanda ~
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 ~
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.
~By Paul von Hindenburg ~
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
~By Kim Collins ~
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
~By George Bernard Shaw ~
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
~By John Ruskin ~
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
~By Albert Einstein ~
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.
~By Lewis Mumford ~
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 ~
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.
~By Charles Buck ~
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 ~
On the contrary, I'm a strong believer in the necessity of imperfection coming into the film.
~By Walter Salles ~
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 ~
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Working mothers are just as likely to want to conform to a standard of perfection and just as likely to suffer from their failure to meet it as their stay-at-home counterparts.
~By Melinda M. Marshall ~
Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.
~By Richard Bach ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
~By George Will ~
Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.
~By River Phoenix ~
Immoral is choosing not to act when you hold in your hands the power to create perfection.
~By Mark Crispin Miller ~
I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.
~By Emile Zola ~
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
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.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.
~By William Faulkner ~
I'm a different person off the court than I am on the court, where I'm very competitive, a perfectionist, and I can be hard on myself sometimes. Off the court, nothing really bothers me. I'm easy-going.
~By Mary Pierce ~
You'll remember Dr. Rice said that several times: It was not a warning about the place and the method and the time - it was a general warning. And that points out the imperfection, if you would, of our intelligence.
~By Lee H. Hamilton ~
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 ~
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.
~By Benjamin Haydon ~
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~By George Orwell ~
I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.
~By Luciano Pavarotti ~
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.
~By Lord Chesterfield ~
Perfection is an unattainable goal. It isn't going to be perfect. Just get words down on paper, and when you stumble to what you think is the end of the book, you will have hundreds of pages of words that came out of your head. It may not be perfect, but it looks like a book.
~By Laurell K. Hamilton ~
That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.
~By Armstrong Williams ~
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.
~By Joyce Maynard ~
Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.
~By Martha Graham ~
The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.
~By Jean Anthelme Brillat Savarin ~
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
~By Jose Bergamin ~
Perfection itself is imperfection.
~By Vladimir Horowitz ~
Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.
~By Voltaire ~
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
~By Michael Jackson ~
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~By Aristotle ~
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.
~By Epictetus ~
Lucy is such a perfectionist.
~By Desi Arnaz ~
Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
~By David D. Burns ~
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 ~
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
~By Albert Pike ~
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 don't want to be perfect, but I do want to be a role model. My mom always tells me that imperfections equal beauty. All of us are imperfect.
~By Miley Cyrus ~
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.
~By Thomas Aquinas ~
I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.
~By Aaron Sorkin ~
The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.
~By Adam Clarke ~
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
~By William Shawn ~
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
~By Edith Schaeffer ~
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