Perfection Quotations | Page 4

You know you've achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away.

Perfection is never achieved, so you need to go on working.

Grain is life, there's all this striving for perfection with digital stuff. Striving is fine, but getting there is not great. I want a sense of the human and that is what breathes life into a picture. For me, imperfection is perfection.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.

The angel of the Family is Woman. Mother, wife, or sister, Woman is the caress of life, the soothing sweetness of affection shed over its toils, a reflection for the individual of the loving providence which watches over Humanity. In her there is treasure enough of consoling tenderness to allay every pain. Moreover for every one of us she is the initiator of the future. The mother's first kiss teaches the child love; the first holy kiss of the woman he loves teaches man hope and faith in life; and love and faith create a desire for perfection and the power of reaching towards it step by step; create the future, in short, of which the living symbol is the child, link between us and the generations to come. Through her the Family, with its divine mystery of reproduction, points to Eternity.

We executed to perfection in the first quarter. We played a box in one on (Donnie) Haywood and held him to two points and we had very few turnovers. At the end of the quarter, I looked up at the scoreboard and we were behind by two.

We know that they will continue to plan, ... We know that they will hurt us again. We have to minimize, we have to minimize, we have to minimize their ability to do so because there is no perfection in this business.

To live and let live, without clamour for distinction or recognition; to wait on divine love; to write truth first on the tablet of one's own heart - this is the sanity and perfection of living.

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

It has been universally recognized, in all authentic teachings of mankind, that every being born into this world has to work, not merely to keep himself alive, but to strive towards perfection.

When confronted with a situation that appears fragmented or impossible, step back, close your eyes, and envision perfection where you saw brokenness. Go to the inner place where there is no problem, and abide in the consciousness of well-being.

Where do we people go if not towards the perfection of our own illusion?

Christ pitied because He loved, because He saw through all the wretchedness, and darkness, and bondage of evil; that there was in every human soul a possibility of repentance, of restoration; a germ of good, which, however stifled and overlaid, yet was capable of recovery, of health, of freedom, of perfection.

Toyota was searching for perfection and wanted the highest rating in every individual category, not just a good overall evaluation, so the company made a minor change in the wiring to some of the LS 430's airbag sensors and asked for another test.

Are you still to learn that the end and perfection of our victories is to avoid the vices and infirmities of those whom we subdue?

There is a slow-growing beauty which only comes to perfection in old age.... I have seen sweeter smiles on a lip of seventy than I ever saw on a lip of seventeen. There is the beauty of youth, and there is also the beauty of holiness—a beauty much more seldom met; and more frequently found in the arm-chair by the fire, with grandchildren around its knee, than in the ball-room or the promenade.

To bring the best human qualities to anything like perfection, to fill them with the sweet juices of courtesy and charity, prosperity, or, at all events, a moderate amount of it, is required,--just as sunshine is needed for the ripening of peaches and apricots.

We were lacking an ability to get in the flow on offense a little bit and on defense we were better in the second half. I think coaches look for perfection and it was nice to win by such a margin, but I still think we have a lot to work on.

Does the real thing ever have the perfection of a stage performance?

Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level of perfection.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

What is the meaning of Initiation? It is the Path to the realisation of your Self as the sole, the supreme, the absolute of all Truth, Beauty, Purity, Perfection!

In modern times the belief that the ultimate explanation of all things was to be found in Newtonian mechanics was an adumbration of the truth that all science, as it grows towards perfection, becomes mathematical in its ideas.

When wisdom reaches the acme of perfection, it will suppress the vicious instincts and injurious desires.

You cannot force ideas. Successful ideas are the result of slow growth. Ideas do not reach perfection in a day, no matter how much study is put upon them.

If mankind were to resolve to agree in no institution of government, until every part of it had been adjusted to the most exact standard of perfection, society would soon become a general scene of anarchy, and the world a desert.

Everyone should be sacked at least once in their career because perfection doesn't exist. It's important to have setbacks, because that is the reality of life.

You can't start with imbalance and end with peace, be that in your own body, in an ecosystem or between a government and its people. What we need to strive for is not perfection, but balance.

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.

Culture is the study of perfection, and the constant effort to achieve it.

The expectations are built up so high that anything less than perfection will cause the stocks to fall.

Every time you write a song, you're looking for some sort of perfection, and you never quite reach it. You're always looking for that extra missing piece.

Hitler's dictatorship was the first of an industrial estate in this age of modern technology, a dictatorship which employed to perfection the instruments of technology to dominate its own people. By means of such instruments of technology, eighty million persons could be made subject to the will of one individual. Telephone, teletype, radio, made it possible to transmit the commands of the highest levels directly to the lowest organs where they were executed uncritically

He educated Maurice, or rather his spirit educated Maurice's spirit, for they themselves became equal. Neither thought "Am I led; am I leading?" Love had caught him out of triviality and Maurice out of bewilderment in order that two imperfect souls might touch perfection.

When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.

Learn the difference between striving for excellence and striving for perfection. The first is attainable; the second is not.

I don't think I've reached perfection by any stretch of the imagination, but maybe someday I'll become a perfectionist.

Don't expect people to behave perfectly-after all, they are people, with all of the faults and frailties of the human condition.

A lot of disappointed people have been left standing on the street corner waiting for the bus marked Perfection.

Humanity will ever seek but never attain perfection. Let us at least survive and go on trying.

Strive for perfection, but settle for excellence.

Perfection, in anything, is unbearably dull. Myself, I prefer a touch of imperfection.

Imperfections define perfection

To arrive at perfection, a man should have very sincere friends or inveterate enemies; because he would be made sensible of his good or ill conduct, either by the censures of the one or the admonitions of the other.

Strive not for perfection..but for lives and loves that matter.

We must...forge partnerships with those around us, and begin to dismantle the myth of solitary perfection.

This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others.

Remember this. Hold on to this. This is the only perfection there is, the perfection of helping others. This is the only thing we can do that has any lasting meaning. This is why we're here. To make each other feel safe.

It often happens that we pray God to deliver us from some dangerous temptation, and yet God does not hear us but permits the temptation to continue troubling us. In such a case, let us understand that God permits even this for our greater good. When a soul in temptation recommends itself to God, and by His aid resists, O how it then advances in perfection.

Letting go of the need for perfection releases a burst of energy - and guess what - you may accidentally do a good job.

There's some muscle group around your shoulders that seizes up during the perfection dance and doesn't let go until you are asleep, or alone. Or maybe it never really lets go at all.

Perfection does not exist; to understand it is the triumph of human intelligence; to expect to possess it is the most dangerous kind of madness.

The goal of the human soul is conquest, perfection, security, superiority.

I really dont feel like Im in any kind of contest. Except, maybe, with myself. Just want to learn and create and grow. Get better all the time with these filmmaking tools. I dont expect perfection from myself. Just progress.

Sometimes it felt as if all happiness came at a price. You could never, ever, have perfection. Life gave you beauty so you could bear the pain.

Healing is making whole, restoring a state of perfection and balance that has been lost.

Perfection doesn't exist.

A moment is all you can expect from perfection.

I look for good possibilities in movies. I don't look for perfection.

It goes as it does,Argetlam.You cannot hurry perfection.

I respect everything in change and the solemn beauty of life and death... and therefore, while man is amidst the immense beauty of objective bodies, he must possess the capacity of self-perfection and must observe and represent his world with full confidence.

The illusion of perfection is an illusion anyway.

Woman's great strength lies in being late or absent. Presence immediately reveals the weak points of our beloved; when she is absent she become one of the sylph-like figures of our adolescence whom we endowed with perfection.

Flowers always have it - poise, completion, fulfillment, perfection . . .

Perfection is shallow, unreal, and fatally uninteresting.

Homemaking is about making a home, not about making perfection.

I don't like perfection - I think it's dangerous. There is nothing after perfection.

I think it's so important to have a practice, because the consciousness isn't perfection or enlightenment or any of that bullshit. The consciousness is, "Oh, I'm walking down the street and I'm doing nothing."

If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

Theirs is the mystery of continuous creation and all that providence implies: the uncertainty of vision, the horror of the fixed, the dissolution of the present, the intricacy of beauty, the pressure of fecundity, the elusiveness of the free, and the flawed nature of perfection.

Perfection is impossible. Trying to do your best is important, but loving yourself and loving others should come first.

Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

I think New Mexico was the greatest experience from the outside world that I have ever had.

I like Australia less and less. The hateful newness, the democratic conceit, every man a little pope of perfection.

What we strive for in perfection is not what turns us into the lit angel we desire what disturbs and then nourishes has everything we need.

The true purpose of life is the perfection of humanity through individual effort, under the guidance of God's inspiration.

To reach perfection, we must all pass, one by one, through the death of self-effacement.

Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

You are loved just for being who you are, just for existing. You don't have to do anything to earn it. Your shortcomings, your lack of self-esteem, physical perfection, or social and economic success- none of that matters. No one can take this love away from you, and it will always be here.

Truth and love are my law and worship; Form and conscience my manifestation and guide; Nature and peace are my shelter and companion; Order is my attitude; Beauty and perfection are my attack.

Our world is not an optimal place, fine tuned by omnipotent forces of selection. It is a quirky mass of imperfections, working well enough (often admirably); a jury-rigged set of adaptations built of curious parts made available by past histories in different contexts. [...] A world optimally adapted to current environments is a world without history, and a world without history might have been created as we find it. History matters; it confounds perfection and proves that current life transformed its own past.

The person whose mind is always free from attachment, who has subdued the mind and senses, and who is free from desires, attains the supreme perfection of freedom from Karma through renunciation.

With Dan in his final season with the Wildcats (before joining the University of Michigan's coaching staff), I expect nothing but perfection from them.

What's come to perfection perishes. / Things learned on earth, we shall practise in heaven. / Works done least rapidly, Art most cherishes.

We don't root for them to lose. We're not bitter old men, like some people make us out to be, but we're proud of our accomplishment. You can't beat perfection -- you can only equal it. If the Colts do it, then we'll make room for another chair on the mountain.

We've priced to perfection, so you're going to have a little bit of a retrenchment,

To objectify our subjective thought so as to be able to look at it and improve it toward perfection. To seek peak experiences.

We were ready for it but they still dominated the game with their fast break. They executed to perfection. As quick as my kids are they were running by us on the break.

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

We should be done by September 2006 and won't have a vested interest any longer.

Every poet who aspires to celebrity strives to approach the perfection of Pope and the sweetness of his versification.

Flowers do not force their way with great strife. Flowers open to perfection slowly in the sun.... Don't be in a hurry about spiritual matters. Go step by step, and be very sure.

Faultily faultless, icily regular, splendidly null, dead perfection; no more.

They all attain perfection When they find joy in their work.

The saints are a part of this Unique Accidental Occurrence compared to man who is a mere Image reflected in the Mirror of Knowledge of this Accidental occurrence. Thus, through Holiness, so, through Love, man can look beyond him and act accordingly. What more does this superior form of love, which is Holiness, gives them? It gives them Purity, Strength, Shine and Kindness. Why kindness? Because the man is Kind to himself deep in his soul. He loves himself and this is why saints love too, being nothing more than a form of perfection of that piece of Love, of Divinity within the man.

I've teamed up with Jack Roush, and I couldn't be with a more dominant team than I am right now, ... Other than that, as a competitor I try not to settle for anything less than perfection even though we don't achieve it most of the time. I'm just very lucky to be a part of the team I'm part of.

It was a look of perfection just like her style.

The test of a successful person is not an ability to eliminate all problems beforethey arise, but to meet and work out difficulties when they do arise. We must bewilling to make an intelligent compromise with perfection lest we wait foreverbefore taking action. It's still good advice to cross bridges as we come to them.

Scarcely one out of thousands of persons strives for perfection of Self-realization.