Perfection Quotes

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.

In contentment and joy are found the height and perfection of all love towards our neighbor.

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.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

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

But quality of work can be expected only through personal satisfaction, dedication and enjoyment. In our profession, precision and perfection are not a dispensible luxury, but a simple necessity.

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.