Perfection Quotes
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The perfection of an art consists in the employment of a comprehensive system of laws, commensurate to every purpose within its scope, but concealed from the eye of the spectator; and in the production of effects that seem to flow forth spontaneously, as though uncontrolled by their influence, and which are equally excellent, whether regarded individually, or in reference to the proposed result.
John Mason Good
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There's no use being satisfied when things
are done wrongly. I want perfection.
Bill Nichols
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Alas! we know that ideals can never be completely embodied in practice. Ideals must ever lie a great way off--and we will thankfully content ourselves with any not intolerable approximation thereto! Let no man, as Schiller says, too querulously "measure by a scale of perfection the meager product of reality" in this poor world of ours.
Thomas Carlyle
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Aikido is not merely about fighting and the development of the physical self but the perfection of the spiritual man at the same time. It has very harmonious movements, very beautiful to watch and beautiful for your body to feel.
Steven Seagal
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Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who can't attain it in anything.
Eugene Delacroix
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Just because I'd spent so many years coloring inside the lines, it wasn't fair for me to expect perfection. People make mistakes. Life isn't fair. People change.
Sarah Dunn
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There are such beings in the world -- perhaps one in a thousand -- as the creature you and I should think perfection; where grace and spirit are united to worth, where the manners are equal to the heart and understanding; but such a person may not come in your way, or, if he does, he may not be the eldest son of a man of fortune, the near relation of your particular friend, and belonging to your own county.
Jane Austen
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Striving to better, oft we mar what’s well.
William Shakespeare
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It is practice alone that brings the powers of the mind, as well as those of the body, to their perfection.
John Locke
Nazareth
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We are not to expect perfection in this world; but mankind, in modern times, have apparently made some progress in the science of government.
George Washington
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The artist who aims at perfection in everything achieves it in nothing.
Eugene Delacroix
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Meandering leads to perfection.
Lao Tzu
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Weston's sensual texture or Cartier-Bresson's implacable composition are apt to close over themselves, attaining the perfection of a certain sensual and harmonious bliss. We see textures, volumes, equilibrium - and reality, open and ragged, is lost and transcended.
Edmundo Desnoes
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I wish I could convey the perfection of a seal slipping into water or a spider monkey swinging from point to point or a lion merely turning its head. But language founders in such seas. Better to picture it in your head if you want to feel it.
Yann Martel
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Progress is a tension between the notion of perfection and the notion that striving, not finding, is important.
George Zebrowski
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One should assiduously pursue perfection without ever claiming to attain it.
Nicolas Malebranche
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I fight for perfection.
Mike Tyson
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The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a long path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment; every sin already carries grace within it, all small children are potential old men, all sucklings have death within them, all dying people — eternal life.
Hermann Hesse
