Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Evert

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

Diane Kruger

The reason I stopped modeling was because I was not pleased with trying to portray something that is impossible to reach. Even when I do photo shoots now for films, I am just not interested in trying to look my best all the time anymore. That pursuit of an impossible perfection seems ridiculous to me now. I would rather show my vulnerabilities or my doubts than try to be something that no one is.

Eike Batista

Don’t aim for perfection, aim for success.

Edsger Dijkstra

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.

Eddie Vedder

Well there's a lot of machines making music today too so you should expect perfection from them! Other than that it's humans programming it which is actually why i still like it. But yeah, that sounds about right. Now what I've got to do is I've got to stop expecting it of myself.

Ed Parker

To live is to change, and to obtain perfection is to change often.

Earl Nightingale

Excellence always sells.

Michelangelo

Trifles make perfection, but perfection is no trifle.

Alexander Wang

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

Alan Chadwick

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

Bryce Harper

I expect perfection from myself.

Carolina Herrera

Perfection does not exist - only God is perfect.

Camille Pissarro

It is absurd to look for perfection.

C. Northcote Parkinson

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

Carl Jung

Life calls not for perfection, but for completeness.

Beatrix Potter

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Baroness Orczy

I take it, sir, that you do not approve of our new society." "Approval, sir, in my opinion, demands the attainment of perfection. And in that sense, you rather overrate the charms of your society. I'faith, for one thing, it does seem monstrous ill-dressed for any society, even a new one.

Cheryl Richardson

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

Charles Lamb

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

Charles Lyell

In the course of this short tour, I became convinced that we must turn to the New World if we wish to see in perfection the oldest monuments of the earth's history, so far at least as relates to its earliest inhabitants.

Charles Lindbergh

I realized that the future of aviation, to which I had devoted so much of my life, depended less on the perfection of aircraft than on preserving the epoch-evolved environment of life, and that this was true of all technological progress.

Beyonce Knowles

Perfection is a disease of a nation.

Edith Schaeffer

In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.

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

Carl Jung

Perfection belongs to the Gods; the most we can hope for is excellence.

Bill Nichols

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

Bertrand Russell

Each act of cruelty is eternally a part of the universe; nothing that happens later can make that act good rather than bad, or can confer perfection on the whole of which it is a part.

Carlos Castaneda

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

William Shakespeare

Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.

Jane Austen

It would be difficult to say which had seen highest perfection in the other, or which had been the happiest: she, in receiving his declarations and proposals, or he in having them accepted.

Jascha Heifetz

There is no such thing as perfection, there are only standards. And after you have set a standard you learn that it was not high enough. You want to surpass it.

Arianna Huffington

Failure is an integral part of life and that perfection is not of this world.

Carol Bartz

I have a belief that life isn't about balance, because balance is perfection Rather, it's about catching the ball before it hits the floor.