Quotes about perfection
perfection joy suffering
There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love. Mstislav Rostropovich
perfection people achievement
Now that we are rid of this syndrome of imposing the communist model on people, now that we've given them the chance to get rid of this dogma, I have to tell you Americans that you've been pushing your American way of life for decades. You thought it was perfection itself, the ultimate achievement of human thought... There has to be a different approach... Americans have to be more modest in their desires. We have to stimulate human qualities in people rather than greed. Mikhail Gorbachev
perfection definitions enough
By definition, love made you better than good enough; it redefined perfection to include your traits, instead of excluding them. Jodi Picoult
perfection excellence ifs
If you don't seek perfection, you can never reach excellence. Ken Blanchard
perfection
The very pink of perfection. Oliver Goldsmith
perfection perfect quitting
Nothing quite new is perfect. Marcus Tullius Cicero
perfection way said
Would you be in any way offended if I said that you seem to me to be in every way the visible personification of absolute perfection? Oscar Wilde
perfection veneer
Wearing a veneer of perfection never did me any good. Liz Phair
perfection melancholy
All perfection is melancholy. Margaret Oliphant
perfectionist
A perfectionist has to take his time, Michael Jackson
perfection perfect promise
There is still that singular perfection, and it's perfect in part because it seemed, at the time, so clearly to promise more. Michael Cunningham
perfection excellence improvement
Progressive improvement beats delayed perfection. Mark Twain
perfection perfect moments
Nothing is permanently perfect. But there are perfect moments and the will to choose what will bring about more perfect moments.
perfection imperfection unattainable
Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection. Nikki Sixx
perfection kind eiffel-tower
Margo's beauty was a kind of sealed vessel of perfection--uncracked and uncrackable. John Green
perfection facts matter
I reflected on the fact that no matter how good I aspired to be, I was never going to achieve perfection Patti Smith
perfection effort infinite
Perfection in asana is achieved when the effort to perform it becomes effortless and the infinite being within is reached. Patanjali
perfection way my-way
I'm on my way to a place where I'd never dreamed I'd be, and that's perfection. Mary J. Blige
perfection individuality absolutes
It is an absolute perfection... to get the very most out of one's individuality. Michel de Montaigne
perfection divine enjoy
It is an absolute and virtually divine perfection to know how to enjoy our being rightfully.
perfection world lasts
And you will, by the dignity of your Conduct, afford occasion for Posterity to say, when speaking of the glorious example you have exhibited to Mankind, had this day been wanting, the World had never seen the last stage of perfection to which human nature is capable of attaining. George Washington
perfection tea modern
Before modern times there was Walking, but not the perfection of Walking, because there was no tea. G. M. Trevelyan
perfection understanding may
To achieve perfection, one must first begin by not understanding many things! And if we understand too quickly, we may not understand well. Fyodor Dostoevsky
perfection satisfaction may
If we pretend to have reached either perfection or satisfaction, we have degraded ourselves and our work. God's work only may express that, but ours may never have that sentence written upon it, Behold it was very good. John Ruskin
perfection sound imperfect
True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true. Noel Gallagher
perfection way illusion
I'm gregarious with writers and never with manuscripts . . . I [like to] create the illusion of seamless perfection, so I alone know the flawed homely process along the way. Jonathan Lethem
perfection training lines
A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection." Jonathan Horton
perfection upset excellence
I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least. Justin Timberlake
perfection divine-power divine
So, to detract from the perfection of creatures is to detract from the perfection of divine power. Thomas Aquinas
perfection judging should
Our lack of perfection should remind us that no one has the right to judge other's worth. Thia Megia
perfection want want-u
Perfection consists in doing His will, in being that which He wants us to be. Therese of Lisieux
perfection want flaws
Who wants to be a goddess when we can be human? Perfection is a flaw disguised as control. Terry Tempest Williams
perfection levels imagine
An imaginary perfection is automatically at the same level as I who imagine it neither higher nor lower. Simone Weil