Perfection Quotes

Perfection has one grave defect: it is apt to be dull.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The mistake is to imagine that perfection is possible when the very idea is unthinkable.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him; one doubted Him; one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

Style is the perfection of a point of view.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Perfection is not attainable, but if we chase perfection we can catch excellence.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

The true work of art is but a shadow of the divine perfection.

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

My mother's wonderful. To me she's perfection.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

Practice means to perform, over and over again in the face of all obstacles, some act of vision, of faith, of desire. Practice is a means of inviting the perfection desired.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

It is through art, and through art only, that we can realise our perfection.

There is something that falls short of perfection in every book, without exception, something influenced by the age, even something ridiculous; just like everyone, without exception, has weaknesses.

The object of man's worship, whatever it be, will naturally be his standard of perfection. He clothes it with every attribute, belonging, in his view, to a perfect character; and this character he himself endeavors to attain.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

By this way you may dress all sorts of horses in the utmost perfection, if you know how to practice it; a thing that is very easy in the hands of a master.

Have no fear of perfection - you'll never reach it.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

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

Original sin is that thing about man which makes him capable of conceiving of his own perfection and incapable of achieving it.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.