Perfection Quotes

I'm hardly Hollywood material - they're interested in youth and perfection and I lay no claims to either. It's not a place that's particularly interested in talent.

I am not strong on perfection.

No one ever approaches perfection except by stealth, and unknown to themselves.

Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

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.

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

Perfection has to do with the end product, but excellence has to do with the process.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

It's all about perfection, isn't it?

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.

Salesmanship, too, is an art; the perfection of its technique requires study and practice.

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.

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.

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work.

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.