Famous Quotes & Sayings

Harry Browne

Like many people, most Libertarians feel empathy and sympathy for less fortunate people. But they know you can't have perfection in a world of limited resources.

Orson Scott Card

I looked for perfection, and I found something better.

Peggy Fleming

It was a look of perfection just like her style.

Kevin Flynn

The thing about perfection is that it is unknowable, it's impossible, but its also right in front of us, all the time

Ken Goldberg

Philosophers say that perfection is unattainable. Lithographers redefine perfection according to SEMI standards.

Julia Cameron

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.

Gretchen Rubin

Flawed can be more perfect than perfection.

Gordon B. Hinckley

Mediocrity will never do. You are capable of something better.

Giuseppe Verdi

I have striven for perfection, it has always eluded me, but I surely had an obligation to make one more try.

Herman Melville

We are only what we are; not what we would be; nor every thing we hope for. We are but a step in a scale, that reaches further above us than below.

Henry David Thoreau

There is a certain perfection in accident which we never consciously attain.

Henry David Thoreau

There are many skillful apprentices, but few master workmen.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Abstaining so as really to enjoy, is the epicurism, the very perfection, of reason.

Jeremy Bentham

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

Jennifer Egan

The problem was precision, perfection; the problem was digitization, which sucked the life out of everything that got smeared through its microscopic mesh.

Jennifer Egan

Too clear, too clean. The problem was precision, perfection;

Jerry Spinelli

Peace and harmony do not require perfection. Thank goodness for that—because life so often seems to be an itch here, a glitch there, a mess waiting to happen. Harmony is flexible. It bends with imperfection. So should you.

Jennifer Lopez

And I deal with all that by being like a perfectionist. But that's okay.

Jacqueline Novogratz

Just start Don't wait for perfection. Just start and let the work teach you.

Jewel

All things change. Cultivate flexibility rather than perfection.

Jerry Moran

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

Jeff Bridges

It's like that perfection thing, trying to be that thing you're not. You have to feel that discomfort and not try to get rid of it. Accept that aspect and get into it. Acknowledge those feelings and let them be. You are who you are.

Georges Braque

Work to perfect the mind. There is no certitude but in what the mind conceives.

George Will

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Hugh Prather

Perfectionism is slow death.

Gottfried Leibniz

For, above all, I hold a notion of possibility and necessity according to which there are some things that are possible, but yet not necessary, and which do not really exist. From this it follows that a reason that always forces a free mind to choose one thing over another (whether that reason derives from the perfection of a thing, as it does in God, or from our imperfection) does not eliminate our freedom.

George Bernard Shaw

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

Chris Van Allsburg

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

George Soros

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

George Soros

The scope for improvement is infinite, precisely because perfection is unattainable.

Fernando Pessoa

We worship perfection because we can't have it; if we had it, we would reject it. Perfection is inhuman, because humanity is imperfect.

Francis Bacon

I'm just trying to make images as accurately as possible off my nervous system as I can.

Erin Heatherton

Perfection is really boring!