Perfection Quotes

Probably the closest things to perfection are the huge absolutely empty holes that astronomers have recently discovered in space. If there's nothing there, how can anything go wrong?

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

You know one of the causes of modern despair is the fact that we have had proposed to us, from various quarters, an impossible perfection.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

Love is the bond of perfection.

To feel much for others and little for ourselves; to restrain our selfishness and exercise our benevolent affections, constitute the perfection of human nature.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

It is absurd to look for perfection.

Jonathan is that brilliant little fire that burns within us all, that lives only for those moments when we reach perfection.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Often, when you've reached a very high level of achievement, you almost become paralyzed by the idea that anything you might do might be imperfect. Perfection is just the striving, the effort, the struggle, but it's hard to remember that.

Complete and total perfection will come about only when we feel that our perfection is no perfections as long as the rest of humanity remains imperfect.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

The perfection in theater is that it's over the second it's done.

The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

With four perfectionists in the band, we have a hard time reaching perfection.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.

Culture is properly described as the love of perfection; it is a study of perfection.

A perfect human being: Man in search of his ideal of perfection. Nothing less.

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.

In films, the fact that you can always do a scene again takes a load off your mind, enabling you to strive for perfection, which I always wanted.