Perfection Quotes

This search for perfection - which is a search for divinity - is nothing more than the failure to accept our existence the way it is.

As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.

Absolute perfection is here and now, not in some future, near or far.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

When the true qualities of photography are recognized, the process of representation by mechanical means will be brought to a level of perfection never before reached.

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.

His only fault is that he has no fault.

I'm living a dream I never want to wake up from.

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?

I'm addicted to perfection. Problem with my life is I was always also addicted to chaos. Perfect chaos.

The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.

In an imperfect world perfection is not instantly available. Railroad safety, for instance, cannot be secured by mechanical devices alone. It is primarily a resultant of care and discipline.

In recovering from our creative blocks, it is necessary to go gently and slowly... These are baby steps. Progress, not perfection, is what we should be asking of ourselves.

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

....try the mustard, - a man can't know what turnips are in perfection without mustard.

Life's missed opportunities, at the end, may seem more poignant to us than those we embraced — because in our imagination they have a perfection that reality can never rival.

There is no worse sickness for the soul, o you who are proud, than this pretense of perfection.

I do think imperfection's underrated.

This perfection is the restoration of man to the state of holiness from which he fell, by creating him anew in Christ Jesus, and restoring to him that image and likeness of God which he has lost.

Trying to do it all and expecting that it all can be done exactly right is a recipe for disappointment. Perfection is the enemy.

Perfection does not exist -- you can always do better and you can always grow.

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation of the divine Truth here on earth

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

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

Embrace nature's brutal perfection.

I am not a perfectionist, but still I seek perfection. I am not a great romantic, but yet I yearn 4 affection

I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

Art finds her own perfection within, and not outside of, herself. She is not to be judged by any external standard of resemblance.

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.

Comparisons are easily done, once you've had a taste of perfection

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

I expect perfection from myself.

All art is in the last analysis an endeavor to condense as out of the flying vapor of the world an image of human perfection, and for its own and not for the art's sake.

I'm not interested in perfection. The universe is perfect, and there are some works of art that we see as perfect, but human beings aren't perfect.

Mathematics, rightly viewed, possesses not only truth, but supreme beauty-a beauty cold and austere ... yet sublimely pure and capable of stern perfection such as only the greatest art can show.

Every man, woman and child holds the possibility of physical perfection; it rests with each of us to attain it by personal understanding and effort.

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

Instead of waiting for perfection, run with what you've got, and fix it as you go.

We fall in love when our imagination projects nonexistent perfection upon another person. One day, the fantasy evaporates and with it, love dies.

The rude beginnings of every art acquire a greater celebrity than the art in perfection; he who first played the fiddle was looked upon as a demigod.

Everything that looks too perfect is too perfect to be perfect.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

The perfect human being is all human beings put together, it is a collective, it is all of us together that make perfection.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

The beast that bears you fastest to perfection is suffering.

I was greatly influenced by one of my teachers. She had a zeal not so much for perfection as for steady betterment-she demanded not excellence so much as integrity.

The mind, the soul, becomes ennobled by the endeavour to create something perfect, for God is perfection, and whoever strives after perfection is striving for something devine.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Perfection's awesome... So I strive for it every day.