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 ~
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 ~
My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~By Aristotle ~
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 ~
Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
~By Kelly Millar ~
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.
~By Justin Timberlake ~
Perfectionists are their own devils.
~By Jack Kirby ~
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
~By Josh Billings ~
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
~By Henri Coanda ~
The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.
~By Elihu Root ~
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 ~
Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.
~By Celine Dion ~
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 ~
Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
~By William Hurt ~
Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.
~By Albert Pike ~
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
~By Adam Jones ~
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.
~By Harry Knowles ~
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
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 ~
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
~By James Stephens ~
We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.
~By Pierre Corneille ~
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
~By Douglas Horton ~
Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
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.
~By Neil Diamond ~
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.
~By James Cash Penney ~
To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.
~By Ali ibn Abi Talib ~
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~By Owen Feltham ~
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.
~By Mark Helprin ~
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?
~By Richard Brautigan ~
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
~By Henry Fuseli ~
Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.
~By Thomas Carlyle ~
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
~By William Law ~
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.
~By Oscar Wilde ~
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 ~
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 ~
I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.
~By Wolfgang Hildesheimer ~
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 ~
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
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 ~
An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.
~By J. D. Salinger ~
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 ~
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.
~By William Ames ~
The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.
~By Arthur Koestler ~
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
~By Marilu Henner ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
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 ~
Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections.
~By Saint Francis de Sales ~
When you work on your own life, you are less likely to hyper focus on the imperfections of your husband.
~By Martha Quinn ~
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem.
~By Albert Einstein ~
The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.
~By Ludwig Bemelmans ~
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 ~
It's all about perfection, isn't it?
~By Keira Knightley ~
As you begin your tour of the United States, you may as well know that one American national trait which irritates many Americans and must be convenient for our critics is that we relentlessly advertise our imperfections.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr. ~
There is a kind of beauty in imperfection.
~By Conrad Hall ~
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
~By Edmund Husserl ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.
~By Louis Auchincloss ~
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 ~
And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.
~By Jennifer Lopez ~
Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.
~By Ieyasu Tokugawa ~
As machines become more and more efficient and perfect, so it will become clear that imperfection is the greatness of man.
~By Ernst Fischer ~
Even imperfection itself may have its ideal or perfect state.
~By Thomas de Quincey ~
The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
~By Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~
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 ~
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
~By Antonio Tabucchi ~
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 ~
I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.
~By David Herbert Lawrence ~
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 ~
I'm a perfectionist.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.
~By Agnetha Faltskog ~
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
~By Jerry Moran ~
A diva is someone who is a perfectionist, who does her best in her craft.
~By Patti LaBelle ~
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 ~
Action is the highest perfection and drawing forth of the utmost power, vigor, and activity of man's nature.
~By Bishop Robert South ~
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 pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
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