Quotes about perfection
perfection strive do-the-best
Perfection is impossibility but striving for perfection is not. Do the best you can. That is what counts. John Wooden
perfection sake scorn travel
The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Richard Bach
perfection wit knows
Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is. Philip Sidney
perfection political demand
We demand of our political life greater certainty and greater perfection than we demand of our personal life.
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 quality fundamentals
The Forsytes were resentful of something, not individually, but as a family; this resentment expressed itself in an added perfection of raiment, an exuberance of family cordiality, an exaggeration of family importance, and the sniff. Danger so indispensable in bringing out the fundamental quality of any society, group, or individual was what the Forsytes scented; the premonition of danger put a burnish on their armour. For the first time, as a family, they appeared to have an instinct of being in contact, with some strange and unsafe thing. John Galsworthy
perfection parent soul
The end then of learning is to repair the ruins of our first parents by regaining to know God aright, and out of that knowledge to love him, to imitate him, to be like him, as we may the nearest by possessing our souls of true virtue, which being united to the heavenly grace of faith makes up the highest perfection. John Milton
perfection want bowling
You want perfection, go to a bowling alley! John Calipari
perfection christ strive
Whoever is not satisfied with Christ alone, strives after something beyond absolute perfection. John Calvin
perfection nervous decline
Possessing the ideal makes a person nervous: you sense the inevitable decline just ahead. Garrison Keillor
perfection healthy body
My body represents perfection. I am vibrantly healthy. Louise Hay
perfection desire want
There's fatigue but also a deliberate desire to want to reach absolute perfection at every concert. Lisa Gerrard
perfection perfect interesting
No one is perfect. It's not interesting to be perfect. Lindsay Lohan
perfection levels pauses
Happiness consists in always aspiring perfection, the pause in any level in perfection is the pause of happiness Leo Tolstoy
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