Perfectionism becomes a badge of honor with you playing the part of the suffering hero.
~By David D. Burns ~
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 ~
And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.
~By Kathy Mattea ~
I'm a perfectionist.
~By Natalie Imbruglia ~
The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.
~By William Hurt ~
A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.
~By Chuck Palahniuk ~
Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.
~By Jerry Moran ~
I'm a perfectionist, which I think is a mistake.
~By Michelle Shocked ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.
~By Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ~
The fastest way to break the cycle of perfectionism and become a fearless is mother is to give up the idea of doing it perfectly - indeed to embrace uncertainty and imperfection.
~By Arianna Huffington ~
As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.
~By Roy Barnes ~
I'm my own worst critic and I think everyone in the band is a perfectionist.
~By Adam Jones ~
It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.
~By Samuel Johnson ~
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 ~
It belongs to the imperfection of everything human that man can only attain his desire by passing through its opposite.
~By Soren Kierkegaard ~
Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.
~By Walter Scott ~
Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.
~By Matthew Arnold ~
Stage is about imperfections and working with them, whether it be from you or the audience.
~By Katherine Moennig ~
To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.
~By Richard Whately ~
These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.
~By Henri Coanda ~
Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.
~By Gustave Flaubert ~
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 ~
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 ~
Be a perfectionist.
~By Ken Follett ~
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 ~
We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.
~By Sidney Poitier ~
I am careful not to confuse excellence with perfection. Excellence, I can reach for; perfection is God's business.
~By Michael J. Fox ~
Perfection cannot be defined or seen; it can only be found in your heart.
~By Kelly Millar ~
I was made to be a perfectionist at everything I did. Everything was more important than what I wanted.
~By Dennis Quaid ~
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 ~
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.
~By Edward Coke ~
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 ~
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
~By Hannah Arendt ~
God is another name for human intelligence raised above all error and imperfection, and extended to all possible truth.
~By William Ellery Channing ~
The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
~By Jeremy Bentham ~
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 ~
Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
~By Michelangelo ~
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 ~
Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.
~By Elihu Root ~
Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.
~By Aristotle ~
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.
~By Emile Zola ~
Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.
~By Douglas Horton ~
I'm a perfectionist. I'm not going to cheat the people.
~By Dick Dale ~
Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.
~By Reinhold Niebuhr ~
Falling short of perfection is a process that just never stops.
~By William Shawn ~
However, don't let perfectionism become an excuse for never getting started.
~By Marilu Henner ~
If kids like a picture book, they're going to read it at least 50 times. Read anything that often, and even minor imperfections start to feel like gravel in the bed.
~By Mark Haddon ~
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 ~
Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.
~By C. Northcote Parkinson ~
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 ~
With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.
~By Adam Jones ~
In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!
~By Edmund Husserl ~
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 ~
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 ~
I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.
~By Michael Jackson ~
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 ~
All imperfection is easier to tolerate if served up in small doses.
~By Wislawa Szymborska ~
Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.
~By Owen Feltham ~
Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.
~By William Law ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.
~By Richard Courant ~
The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
~By Eugene Delacroix ~
The perfection of art is to conceal art.
~By Marcus Fabius Quintilian ~
Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.
~By Kim Collins ~
I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.
~By Albrecht Druer ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.
~By Chuck Mangione ~
Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.
~By Colin Powell ~
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 ~
I am pretty tenacious as a perfectionist in terms of getting something right.
~By Garry Shandling ~
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 ~
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 ~
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 ~
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.
~By Philip Sidney ~
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 ~
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 true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.
~By Michelangelo ~
No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.
~By William Hazlitt ~
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. ~
It is absurd to look for perfection.
~By Camille Pissarro ~
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 ~
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 ~
It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.
~By John Ruskin ~
Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.
~By James Stephens ~
It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.
~By W. Somerset Maugham ~
It is only imperfection that complains of what is imperfect. The more perfect we are the more gentle and quiet we become towards the defects of others.
~By Joseph Addison ~
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 ~
If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.
~By Josh Billings ~
I suspect the secret of personal attraction is locked up in our unique imperfections, flaws and frailties.
~By Hugh Mackay ~
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.
~By George Orwell ~
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 ~
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