Perfection Quotes

The world record will come to me when I run the world record race. I'm just trying to perfect my race. I'm looking for perfection.

Strive for continuous improvement, instead of perfection.

The human race is intoxicated with narrow victories, for life is a string of them like pearls that hit the floor when the rope breaks, and roll away in perfection and anarchy.

If I'd been a housemaid I'd have been the best in Australia - I couldn't help it. It's got to be perfection for me.

Advance, and never halt, for advancing is perfection. Advance and do not fear the thorns in the path, for they draw only corrupt blood.

We all suffer from the preoccupation that there exists... in the loved one, perfection.

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

It seems that the creative faculty and the critical faculty cannot exist together in their highest perfection.

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.

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

Although images of perfection in people's personal lives can cause unhappiness, images of perfect societies - utopian images - can cause monstrous evil. In fact, forcefully changing society to conform to societal images was the greatest cause of evil in the twentieth century.

Well, you know, I mean, she was so wonderful, and she really played the role to perfection.

I mean, I spent 30 years in the world of physical perfection, right? I've known most of the world's most perfect physical specimens over the course of the last 30 years.

Perfection is the child of time.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

For the last 30 years our cinemas have been ruled by science fiction and horror. We've had some very good Fantasy films in that time period, but for my tastes I still haven't seen fantasy done to absolute perfection. That is the hope I have in this project.

My ambition is peace and perfection.

I mentioned the non-competitive spirit explicitly, because these days, excellence is a fashionable concept. But excellence is a competitive notion, and that is not what we are heading for: we are heading for perfection.

A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.

There is also a perfection of degrees, by which a person performs all the commands of God, with the full exertion of all his powers, without the least defect. This is what the law of God requires, but what the saints cannot attain to in this life.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

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.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Finality is death. Perfection is finality. Nothing is perfect. There are lumps in it.