Quotes about perfection
perfection world illusion
Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity. Joyce Maynard
perfection hollywood youth
I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent. Juliet Stevenson
perfectionism efficient
Nothing is less efficient than perfectionism. Elizabeth Gilbert
perfection firsts demand
Perfectionists demand perfection from themselves first and foremost. Joyce Meyer
perfection rooms improvement
I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement. Ludacris
perfection fiction perfectionist
Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life. Louis Auchincloss
perfection perfect standards
Adopt the standard of perfection, because it is a perfect universe. Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
perfection together complaining
1-Don't analyze. 2-Don't complain. 3-Don't compare yourself to others. 4-Don't expect things to be done for you. 5-Don't expect perfection in the relative. 6-Look to the knowledge aspect daily. 7-Own the movement. 8-Problems are all in your head. 9-Hold yourself together.
perfection example fruit
The devotion of such titans of spirit as Lenin to an Ideal must bear fruit. The nobility of his selflessness will be an example through centuries to come, and his Ideal will reach perfection. Mahatma Gandhi
perfection appreciate kind
The bowl landed, in glorious perfection, atop the head of Mrs Barnaclegoose, who was not the kind of woman to appreciate the finer points of being crowned by trifle. Gail Carriger
perfection imperfect limitless
A certain type of perfection can only be realized through a limitless accumulation of the imperfect. Haruki Murakami
perfection fresh-start happens
Everybody has to start somewhere. You have your whole future ahead of you. Perfection doesn't happen right away.
perfection excellence locks
Perfection. Excellence. What a passionate lover. But once having tasted the lips of excellence, once having given oneself to its perfection, how dreary and burdensome and filled with anomie are the remainder of one's waking hours trapped in the shackled lock-step of the merely ordinary, the barely acceptable, the just okay and not a stroke better. Harlan Ellison
perfection pressure cooks
When you cook under pressure you trade perfection. Gordon Ramsay
perfection needs impossible
Many things impossible to thought have been by need to full perfection brought. John Dryden
perfection giving laziness
Aim at perfection in everything, though in most things it is unattainable. However, they who aim at it, and persevere, will come much nearer to it than those whose laziness and despondency make them give it up as unattainable. Lord Chesterfield
perfection joy
Seek perfection, and find joy in never attaining it. Lupita Nyong'o
perfection mind inward
Culture, then, is a study of perfection, and perfection which insists on becoming something rather than in having something, in an inward condition of the mind and spirit, not in an outward set of circumstances. Matthew Arnold
perfection culture study
Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.
perfection focus excellence
A good designer has a lot in common with a good researcher. Both hunt for excellence and perfection. And you have to really focus on the details, and you don’t really know what the final result will be before you have it. May-Britt Moser
perfection impossible fronts
The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time Kevin Flynn
perfection unattainable philosopher
Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards. Ken Goldberg
perfection trying quests
Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again. Julia Cameron
perfection causes misery
Supreme happiness will be the greatest cause of misery, and the perfection of wisdom the occassion of folly. Leonardo da Vinci
perfection youth aim
The condition of perfection is idleness: the aim of perfection is youth. Oscar Wilde
perfection high-standards mediocre
One has to set high standards... I can never be happy with mediocre performance. Patrice Motsepe
perfection ultimate
God always ignores the present perfection for the ultimate perfection. Oswald Chambers
perfection perfect expecting
Friendships aren't perfect and yet they are very precious. For me, not expecting perfection all in one place was a great release. Letty Cottin Pogrebin
perfection excellence excuse
Striving for perfection is the greatest stopper there is. You'll be afraid you can't achieve it. It's your excuse to yourself for not doing anything. Instead, strive for excellence, doing your best. Laurence Olivier
perfection excellence waste
Don't waste your time striving for perfection; instead, strive for excellence - doing your best.
perfection genius life-is
The perfection of conversational intercourse is when the breeding of high life is animated by the fervor of genius. Leigh Hunt
perfection promise reassurance
Perfection is a promise, and a reassurance that we are not wrong. Lauren Oliver
perfection imperfection want
I don't want to call myself a perfectionist because perfection is imperfection. Ne-Yo