Perfection Quotations | Page 2

In the works of man, everything is as poor as its author; vision is confined, means are limited, scope is restricted, movements are labored, and results are humdrum.

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

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

Often, equipment can as easily function as a security blanket for musicians unwilling or unable to risk anything personal in the studio. Whether one catches the feeling on a record is a subjective matter. How can you be sure? The machinery can hold out the promise of at least mechanical perfection.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

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

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

When you hear Bach or Mozart, you hear perfection. Remember that Bach, Mozart and Beethoven were great improvisers. I can hear that in their music.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

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

APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Every particular in nature, a leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole.

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.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

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.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

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

The only nice thing about being imperfect is the joy it brings to others.

Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good.

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

That is what great athletes can do: they give us a model of striving for human perfection.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Some people strive for perfection, but I often find perfection boring

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.

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.

Whoever I am, or whatever I am doing, some kind of excellence is within my reach.

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.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

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.

Film is so much to do with perfection and how differently you can feel about someone at the beginning of the film and the end of the film.

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

The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

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.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

I'm never pleased with anything, I'm a perfectionist, it's part of who I am.

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.

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

The perfection of Christian character depends wholly upon the grace and strength found alone in God.

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

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.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

I'm a perfectionist, so my bossiness definitely comes out.

I am not interested in perfection, and neither are the women who wear my clothes.

A lot of people from my generation of music are so focused on playing things correctly or to perfection that they're stuck in that safe place.

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

I'm a perfectionist. Sometimes I have to remind myself that it's okay if there are flaws here and there.

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

As you all know, I'm kind of a perfectionist.

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

It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

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.

Humor has justly been regarded as the finest perfection of poetic genius.

One that desires to excel should endeavor in those things that are in themselves most excellent.

If a man should happen to reach perfection in this world, he would have to die immediately to enjoy himself.

We will not attain a state of perfection in this life, but we can and should press forward with faith in Christ along the strait and narrow path and make steady progress toward our eternal destiny.

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.

This is the very perfection of a man, to find out his own imperfections.

I think the perfection of love is that it's not perfect.

It is in this power of saying everything, and yet saying nothing too plainly, that the perfection of art consists.

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

You'll see more and more perfection of that - computer as servant. But the next thing is going to be computer as a guide or agent.

I fear that many a man's good resolutions only need the ordinary fire of daily life to make them melt away. So, too, with fine professions and the boastings of perfection which abound in this age of shams.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

The works of a person that begin immediately to decay, while those of him who plants begin directly to improve. In this, planting promises a more lasting pleasure than building; which, were it to remain in equal perfection, would at best begin to moulder and want repairs in imagination. Now trees have a circumstance that suits our taste, and that is annual variety.

I've been coming to Notre Dame since 1957. This place, this campus, is the closest thing there is to perfection.

We bordered on perfection out there tonight. The tie is not over yet, but we've taken a magnificent step toward the final.

If you work with determination and with perfection, success will follow.

Washington had performed his role to perfection. It was no enough that a leader look the part; by Washington's rules, he must know how to act it with self-command and precision.

Perfection' is man's ultimate illusion. It simply doesn't exist in the universe.... If you are a perfectionist, you are guaranteed to be a loser in whatever you do.

Confronting your fears and allowing yourself the right to be human can, paradoxically, make you a far happier and more productive person.

Assert your right to make a few mistakes. If people can't accept your imperfections, that's their fault.

Without an uninvestigated story, there's only the perfection of life appearing as itself. You can always go inside and find the beauty that's revealed after the pain and fear are understood.

The teacher you need is the person you're living with.

I expect perfection from myself.

Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

I never competed against athletes. I competed against perfection.

There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.

To seek the perfection of the warrior's spirit is the only task worthy of our temporariness, our manhood.

The body must be perfection before the will is a functioning unit

I would like my work to be recognized as being in the classical tradition (Coptic, Egyptian, Greek, Chinese), as representing the Ideal in the mind. Classical art cannot possibly be eclectic. One must see the ideal in one's own mind. It is like a memory - an awareness -of perfection.

I think our minds respond to things beyond this world. Take beauty: it's a very mysterious thing, isn't it? I think it's a response in our minds to perfection. It's too bad, people not realizing that their minds expand beyond this world.

Yet again, the more you strive for some kind of perfection or mastery—in morals, in art or in spirituality—the more you see that you are playing a rarified and lofty form of the old ego-game, and that your attainment of any height is apparent to yourself and to others only by contrast with someone else's depth or failure.

If you obey the technique to perfection, that technique will become invisible.

Heaven is beautiful because it is the expression of that which is the perfection of beauty.

I trust in the perfection of Divine Timing and allow my life to unfold as it should.

He who hath not a dram of folly in his mixture hath pounds of much worse matter in his composition.

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.

He that would have the perfection of pleasure must be moderate in the use of it.

There are some troubles from which mankind can never escape .... have never claimed that liberty will bring perfection; they simply say that its results are vastly preferable to those that follow from authority .... As a choice of blessings, liberty is the greater; as a choice of evils, liberty is the smaller. Then liberty always says the Anarchist. No use of force except against the invader....