Perfection Quotes

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.

Confusion of goals and perfection of means seems, in my opinion, to characterize our age.

Perfection is attained by slow degrees; it requires the hand of time.

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

The cruelest thing a man can do to a woman is to portray her as perfection.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

I came back to performing with a different attitude about performing and myself. I wasn't expecting perfection any more, just hoping for an occasional inspiration.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.

Not a having and a resting, but a growing and becoming, is the character of perfection as culture conceives it.

It is reasonable to have perfection in our eye that we may always advance toward it, though we know it can never be reached.

If you think you've already made it, that's when you can fall short and go backwards. I'm constantly pushing forward and chasing the element of perfection.

The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection.

So we strive for perfection in the areas in which we can control, and that isn't necessarily what provides contentment and joy for ourselves and, more importantly, for our children.

God who is eternally complete, who directs the stars, who is the master of fates, who elevates man from his lowliness to Himself, who speaks from the cosmos to every single human soul, is the most brilliant manifestation of the goal of perfection.

Music is harmony, harmony is perfection, perfection is our dream, and our dream is heaven.

The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.

People often called us perfectionists, but we were not looking for perfection. We were looking for some kind of magic in the music.

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

I don't believe in perfection. I don't think there is such a thing. But the energy of wanting things to be great is a perfectionist energy.