Perfection Quotations

Be intent upon the perfection of the present day.

All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.

Fix your eyes on perfection and you make almost everything speed towards it.

Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self- solitude is the enemy of well- being.

Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.

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

Life is a moving, breathing thing. We have to be willing to constantly evolve. Perfection is constant transformation.

In our western civilization we have the glorious example, the great standard of perfection and the teachings of the Christ to guide us. He acts for us as Mediator between our personality and our Soul.

Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

In terms of popular cinema, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' is as near perfection as I can think of.

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. Though different traditions may emphasize different aspects, it is only the interplay of these antithetic forces and the struggle for their synthesis that constitute the life, usefulness, and supreme value of mathematical science.

I had given up magic, because it had reached a state of perfection. I felt that I was able to transform men into animals. I did not make use of this capability, because I believed I could not justify an intervention of this kind in the life of another person.

There is a danger of changing too much in the search for perfection.

An artist's only concern is to shoot for some kind of perfection, and on his own terms, not anyone else's.

These airplanes we have today are no more than a perfection of a child's toy made of paper.

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.

Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.

We have this idea of perfection that is so unrealistic. We are our own worst enemy. No one is noticing that little scar.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

Perfection irritates as well as it attracts, in fiction as in life.

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

Looking for perfection is the only way to motivate yourself.

Art is a reality, not a definition; inasmuch as it approaches a reality, it approaches perfection, and inasmuch as it approaches a mere definition, it is imperfect and untrue.

I'm in total awe of the technique of great film people. Because if you get your emotional life up to perfection by miracle on Take One, you better have a technique to keep doing it again and again and again.

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.

In a few decades of reconstruction, even the mathematical natural sciences, the ancient archetypes of theoretical perfection, have changed habit completely!

The attractive idea that we can now have a parliament of man with authority to control the conduct of nations by legislation or an international police force with power to enforce national conformity to rules of right conduct is a counsel of perfection.

When I work, I work. I don't think about anything else. I just wanna get the work done. And I'm a perfectionist.

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.

Redemption is not perfection. The redeemed must realize their imperfections.

Ignorance is the first requisite of the historian - ignorance, which simplifies and clarifies, which selects and omits, with a placid perfection unattainable by the highest art.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

I'm not going to change my teeth or get a nose job. That manufactured perfection does nothing for me.

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.

The perfection of art is to conceal art.

As the leaders and decision-makers of this great state, it is our responsibility to strive for perfection.

The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back.

If you want people to listen, you have to have a platform to speak from, and that is excellence in what you do.

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.

I always had the sense that nothing was never good enough - striving for perfection. My mother and I had a sort of typical mother-daughter relationship.

However, the fact that the tanks had now been raised to such a pitch of technical perfection that they could cross our undamaged trenches and obstacles did not fail to have a marked effect on our troops.

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?

Perfection of planned layout is achieved only by institutions on the point of collapse.

I grew up in the theatre. It's where I got my start. Writing a television drama with theatrical dialogue about the theatre is beyond perfection.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

In the beginning I pushed toward perfection, but it takes time to get to certain places.

I'm a perfectionist, so I always feel there's room for improvement.

Perfection does not consist in any singular state or condition of life, or in any particular set of duties, but in holy and religious conduct of ourselves in every state of Life.

The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light.

We dwell in the house of the body, but its perfection and intricate life are the work of a wisdom which never relaxes dominion over a single cell.

My mother is the sort of woman who not only can raise a chicken and roast it to moist perfection but, as she proved to my openmouthed sister and me on a family holiday to Morocco when we were very young, can barter for one in a market, kill it, pluck it, and then cook it to perfection.

So slowly in my mind formed the idea of melodrama, a form I found to perfection in American pictures. They were naive, they were that something completely different. They were completely Art-less.

I use a lot of different words for God - infinite intelligence, primordial, perfection or universal creativity. All of these, to me, are God. And 'God' is a word, I think, that some people feel uncomfortable with, so they can use another word, you know? It's the great mystery.

Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough - that we should try again.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reasonThe law, which is perfection of reason.

When you cook under pressure you trade perfection.

Freedom from care and anxiety of mind is a blessing, which I apprehend such people enjoy in higher perfection than most others, and is of the utmost consequence.

The fact of storytelling hints at a fundamental human unease, hints at human imperfection. Where there is perfection there is no story to tell.

The principle mark of genius is not perfection but originality, the opening of new frontiers.

Philosophy is a kind of journey, ever learning yet never arriving at the ideal perfection of truth.

The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.

Actually, I can't imagine anything more tedious than a perfect person, especially if it was someone who also demanded perfection from me.

You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.

Some people have greatness thrust upon them. Very few have excellence thrust upon them.

Our erected wit maketh us to know what perfection is.

Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco.

Human nature must have come much nearer perfection than it is now, or will be in many generations, to exclude from such a control prejudice, selfishness, ambition, and injustice.

I am self-conscious, and I'm aware of my body. But I struggle with America's limited idea of what perfection is.

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men.

Usher is amazing. He's perfection to me as a performer. He gets down.

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.

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.

I'm a perfectionist. I can't help it, I get really upset with myself if I fail in the least.

The goodness of a thing created is the perfection of its fitness for the use which it serves. Now that use is either particular or universal.

To make one good action succeed another, is the perfection of goodness.

I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection.

We all parent the best we can. Being human, we're ambivalent. We want perfection for our babies, but we also need sleep.

You don't need to stick to tough rules or overnight changes; you need not rely on hardcore discipline that makes you hate your life. You need only focus on progress, not perfection. Lean in to the process of losing weight, and it will happen easily.

I am little concerned with beauty or perfection. I don't care for the great centuries. All I care about is life, struggle, intensity.

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.

The true picture of life as it is, if it could be adequately painted, would show men what they are, and how they might rise, not, indeed to perfection, but one step first, and then another on the ladder.

I'm not trying to achieve perfection. I don't like this forced control people have over work.

And in fact, I think the more we start to worship perfection the more soul leaks out of art.

To be always thinking about your manners is not the way to make them good; the very perfection of manners is not to think about yourself.

Mediocre men work at their best; men seeking excellence strive to do better.

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection. But that won't stop me trying.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

By appreciation, we make excellence in others our own property.

To suppose more than one supreme Source of infinite wisdom, power, and all perfections, is to assert that there is no supreme Being in existence.

In a time not distant, it will be possible to flash any image formed in thought on a screen and render it visible at any place desired. The perfection of this means of reading thought will create a revolution for the better in all our social relations.

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.

Perfection is boring. If a face doesn't have mistakes, it's nothing.

I'm a perfectionist, and I always think that I can do better what I have done, even if it's good.

I probably do have an obsessive personality, but striving for perfection has served me well

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

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.

The torrent of centuries rolling over the human race, has continually brought new perfections, the cause of which, ever active though unseen, is found in the demands made by our senses, which always in their turns demand to be occupied.

I think what makes people fascinating is conflict, it's drama, it's the human condition. Nobody wants to watch perfection.