Perfection Quotes
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Architect's designs must refer to the unquestionable perfection of the body's symmetry and proportions. If a building is to create a sense of eurythmia, it is essential that it mirrors these natural laws of harmony and beauty
Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
Nicolas Malebranche
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Elections are when you have to make a choice. Perfection not often attainable!
Rupert Murdoch
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Trifles make perfection but perfection is not a trifle.
Michelangelo
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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.
Sarah Jessica Parker
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I believe the word "perfection" should be changed to "pure fiction" - it's just not possible!
Arielle Ford
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"I guess I've been waiting so long I'm looking for perfection. That makes it tough." "Waiting for perfect love?" "No, even I know better than that. I'm looking for selfishness. Like, say I tell you I want to eat strawberry shortcake. And you stop everything you're doing and run out and buy it for me. And you come back out of breath and get down on your knees and hold this strawberry shortcake out to me. And I say I don't want it anymore and throw it out the window. That's what I'm looking for."
Haruki Murakami
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Share your weaknesses. Share your hard moments. Share your real side. It'll either scare away every fake person in your life or it will inspire them to finally let go of that mirage called "perfection," which will open the doors to the most important relationships you'll ever be a part of.
Daniel Pearce
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The history of totalitarian regimes is reflected in the evolution and perfection of the instruments of terror and more especially the police.
Carl Joachim Friedrich
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Perfectionism is the enemy of art. Since art is essentially divine play, not dogged work, it often happens that as one becomes more professionally driven one also becomes less capriciously playful.
Erica Jong
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And pictures of perfection, as you know, make me sick and wicked.
Jane Austen
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To labor rightly and earnestly is to walk in the golden track that leads to God. It is to adopt the regimen of manhood and womanhood. It is to come into sympathy with the great struggle of humanity toward perfection. It is to adopt the fellowship of all the great and good the world has ever known.
J. G. Holland
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Sometime in the eternities to come, we will see that our trials were calculated to cause us to turn to our Heavenly Father for strength and support. Any affliction or suffering we are called upon to bear may be directed to give us experience, refinement, and perfection.
Delbert L. Stapley
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Impatience has a poor track record for perfection. Getting things right usually includes calming down!
Garrison Wynn
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True perfection has to be imperfect. I know that sounds foolish, but it's true.
Noel Gallagher Oasis
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If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.
William Pollard
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Charm and perfection hardly cooperate. Charm premises little mistakes which one would like to cover.
Catherine Deneuve
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Ah, woman. She is an enigma. An anomaly of perfection & irony. She can lure angels into her arms & give birth to a nation of ideologies.
Ace Antonio Hall
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Perfection is unattainable, so I like to live in imperfection.
Nikki Sixx Mötley Crüe
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Nature - how, we don't know - has technology that works in every living cell and that depends on every atom being precisely in the right spot. Enzymes are precise down to the last atom. They're molecules. You put the last atom in, and it's done. Nature does things with molecular perfection.
Richard Smalley
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You stand your ground and you perform your art. That's what the artist does. The artist is about perfection.
Mike Tyson
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There's no use being satisfied when things are done wrongly. I want perfection.
Bill Nichols
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To do God's will as fast as it is made known to us, to inquire hourly -- I had almost said each moment -- what He requires of us, and to leave ourselves, our friends, and every interest at His control, with a cheerful trust that the path which He marks out leads to our perfection and to Himself, -- this is at once our duty and happiness; and why will we not walk in the plain, simple way?.
William Ellery Channing