Perfection Quotes

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.

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.

In all of our society, but especially in Hollywood, there is an obsession with perfection that can lead to self-loathing and neurosis and all that kind of stuff.

So I had to just kind of go back to the hotel, take a shower, sit quiet, dig down deep, warm up, and allow myself to move into some kind of zone. And then I remembered that a lot of my favorite musical moments are not about perfection.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

It's more about going to a place inside of me as a woman who knows that I'm never going to have perfection. And that I deserve to be healthy and feel healthy.

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

A studio recording is perfection, but emotion and passion come only when you turn on the machine and go for the groove. If you do that with no mistakes, it sounds beautiful.

Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.

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.

Success is the result of perfection, hard work, learning from failure, loyalty, and persistence.

Ethics is the activity of man directed to secure the inner perfection of his own personality.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.