Perfection Quotes
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Something theoretical in the past may become evident and established in the present or in the future. It is a self-evident fact that creation has an innate tendency towards perfection, and it is through this that creation is bound to the law of development or gradual perfection.
Said Nursi -
Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.
W. Somerset Maugham
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I do not believe that I am a perfectionist one bit. I truly believe that perfection is something that no one can achieve.
Aamir Khan -
I achieved perfection, my type of perfection - visual storytelling. Storytelling was my style.
Jack Kirby -
The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time.
Ed Bliss -
Try as hard as we may for perfection, the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
Samuel McChord Crothers -
The truth is that no matter how many retakes you do, each will be different and that is the nature of any creative medium. There's no such thing as perfection.
Aamir Khan -
The pure perfect truth of life is that we are here to create heaven on earth, to bring the perfection of what is above down to us, and in doing so to become transformed as human being into something great and beautiful.
Kathleen McGowan
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Don't wait for perfection before you start. Start somewhere so you can have something tangible you can work to perfect.
Simon Sinek -
In a fallen world, if you demand perfection or nothing, you will always get nothing.
Edith Schaeffer -
Strive for perfection - never be content with mediocrity. You don't win until you conquer the little flaws. You don't beat these great ones until your form is perfect. This is true in all of life. A flaw in a product can ruin a business. A personal failing, a little one, can ruin a person's life. Don't be content with mediocrity - strive to live up to the greatest within you.
Bob Richards -
Would we rear the human plant to its perfection, we must fertilize the soil which produces it.
Emma Willard -
People throw away what they could have by insisting on perfection, which they cannot have, and looking for it where they will never find it.
Edith Schaeffer -
I want more from David Beckham. I want him to improve on perfection.
Kevin Keegan
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Perfection itself is imperfection.
Vladimir Horowitz -
Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.
William Lewis Safir -
When people insist on perfection or nothing, they get nothing.
Edith Schaeffer -
With respect to love we speak continually about perfection and the perfect person. With respect to love Christianity also speaks continually about perfection and the perfect person. Alas, but we men talk about finding the perfect person in order to love him. Christianity speaks about being the perfect person who limitlessly loves the person he sees.
Soren Kierkegaard -
When you go to a show, Americans in New York are very proper, much more so than the French. Everything is perfect. Their hair, the nails, everything. The look. Everything is perfection.
Carine Roitfeld -
Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.
William Law
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My voice is unadorned. I don't try for perfection. I try to be honest and truthful and soulful with the voice I have. If I make mistakes in notes, or there are cracks in notes, I don't fix them. That's the way it is.
Neil Diamond -
My life is music, and in some vague, mysterious and subconscious way, I have always been driven by a taut inner spring which has propelled me to almost compulsively reach for perfection in music, often-in fact, mostly-at the expense of everything else in my life
Stan Getz -
The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.
George Will -
I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.
Andrew Vachss